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MKD 09111

A R Paul Esq

Head of Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Whitehall

London SW1

Dear Alan

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BRITISH TRADE COMMISSION

HONG KONG.

8 August 1989

Mr Stone 14/8

Mr O'Brien Mr Holpo 11/8

I discussed this

paper with

Mr Barrow on 11 August

Jule

In case you have not received it from other sources, I enclose a copy of a paper given to me by Martin Barrow, a member of Legco and Managing Director of Jardine Matheson & Co, "Focusing Hong Kong as an International City". Martin Barrow has taken the view that Exco and others here would be well advised to limit the energy put into the fight for right of abode for 3.25 million Hong Kong citizens in the UK (and made himself unpopular in some quarters by opposing a very large contract to Saatchi and Saatchi for conducting such a campaign), and thinks that Hong Kong should fight for more realiseable aims. Hence this paper.

I am copying this to John Hall in the Department of Trade and Industry because obviously the international nature of Hong Kong is closely related to the commercial scene.

ben,

Your

récer

P W Heap

Encl.

cc: W J Hall Esq

OT2/2 DTI

PWH/mcs