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You may be doing the Macau Government an injustice in your paragraph 2. The Immigration Department here, who maintain close liaison with their Macanese opposite numbers, tell me that Macau has long been pressing for a frontier control because they are vulnerable to sudden influxes from China of unwanted immigrants. The Chinese have claimed to see no need for the new post, presumably because their effective controls are situated some distance away from the frontier itself. In any event the new post is apparently unlikely to open soon: the Macanese authorities are reported to be having problems with the computerisation needed to run it smoothly.

CC:

Yours ever,

Your's

Dong.

D G Martin

British Trade Commission, Hong Kong Hong Kong Department, FCO

Southern European Department, FCO

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