TNAG-1741-FCO40-2457-Visits-by-Sir-David-Wilson--Governor-of-Hong-Kong--to-the-UK-1988 — Page 11

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

7 MON

Mr Andrew Noble Second Secretary British Embassy BONN

Telephone 01- 270 2657

НКВ HURB 026/1

1988

Your reference

Our reference

CAYAAI

Date

23 June 1988

Dear

Noble,

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I refer to your letter of 6 May to Chris Wood and to our telephone conversations yesterday. I must apologise that the information you requested was not passed on earlier, but I hope the following material will be of use to you.

Attached is a photocopy of the relevant page from the official Hong Kong 1988 yearbook, which gives a good outline of the role of the Governor and the nature of his duties and office. Protocol Department advise that, as the representative of the Queen in Hong Kong, as well as his role as head of the Hong Kong Government, Sir David Wilson should be received at the highest level on visits in his official capacity. From our most recent files I have been unable to trace any reports of EC foreign Ministers visiting Hong Kong and the level at which they were received. If you would like us to delve further into the past on this matter, please

let me

know.

As concerns the division of work created in organising this visit between the Embassy and the Hong Kong Government Office in Brussels, I would suggest that the pattern which has evolved for organising the Governor's visits to London provides a useful precedent. In such instances, HKD would be responsible for organising an official programme for the visit and setting up calls etc, with the Hong Kong Government Office taking on the administrative tasks associated with such a visit (eg hotel accommodation and calls on Hong Kong) There is usually a high degree of liaison between the two in drafting the programme.

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If you require any further material/information, please do not hesitate to contact me again.

Yours ever

Carma Eliot

C Elliot

Hong Kong Department

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