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INTELSAT and where necessary makes proposals through the

UK Party or Signatory to protect Hong Kong's interests.

15.

Through direct communications between the Cable &

Wireless Group and INTELSAT, the approval and the

allotment of space segment capacity for the subsequent

operation of the earth stations in Hong Kong can proceed

in the most efficient manner, and the Group need not

reveal to the Signatory details which it would prefer, for

purely commercial reasons, to remain confidential as

between the Group and INTELSAT. In this connection it

should be remembered that the UK Signatory, like

like many

other Signatories, operates in competition with other

users of the space segment such as the Cable and Wireless

Group.

Proposals

16.

Since the PRC is a party to the Agreement, there

is no need for any action to be taken to secure the

continued application of the Agreement to the Hong Kong

Special Administrative Region (SAR). It is proposed that

the SAR Government and the relevant entities in the SAR

should be allowed to continue to participate in the

activities of INTELSAT after 1997.

this end it

is

To this

further proposed that with effect from 1 July 1997 :