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CONFIDENTIAL
Caveat
Precedence
IMMEDIATE
:
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=
INVOLVING LARGE SCALE RECLAMATION), IS NOT YET FINALLY
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SETTLED. IN PRACTICE THESE OTHER COMPANIES MAY JOIN UP
WITH THE ANGL07 JAPANESE CONSORTIUM LATER BUT MUCH WILL
DEPEND ON HOW THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT LETS THE CONTRACTS
AND WHETHER IT INTENTIONALLY SEEKS TO INVOLVE A NUMBER
OF DIFFERENT GROUPS.
IN TALKING OF HMG COMMITMENT
THEREFORE YOU SHOULD HAVE IN MIND THE FIXED LINK; BUT WE CO
NOT WANT TO ADVERTISE THE POINT UNNECESSARILY SINCE WE
SCARCELY WANT TO ENCOURAGE INDEPENDENT JAPANESE
COMPETITION FOR THE OTHER KEY PARTS OF THE PROJECT-
(AE 30 NOT DOUBT THAT SUCH JAPANESE COMPETITION. WILL_ EMERGE IN DUE COURSE, BUT WE HAVE NO WISH TO ENCOURAGE IT AN EARLY STAGE).
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4. YOU REQUESTED A CLEARER LINE ON HMG'S POSITION
IN RELATION TO THE HKG, AND THIS IS OF COURSE DIFFICULT
TO SUMMARISE FOR MORE PUBLIC CONSUMPTION IN A SITUATION
WHERE WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE AMBIGUITIES.
YOUR DISCUSSION WITH KUMAGAI SHOULD CLEARLY BE
REGARDED AS CONFIDENTIAL, AND YOUR COMMENTS WILL NEED TO
BUT WE SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING GENERAL LINE:
BE CBLIQUE.
QUOTE THE HKG
have
ALWAYS
et
FAVOUR OF OPEN
They
COMPETITION. THERE IS—49 DOUBT THAT THE HKS WILL
IL FAQs H BE KEENLY INTERESTED IN VALUE FOR MONEY, AND THAT
TO WIN MAJOR CONTRACTS, THE PRICE AND TERMS WILL
HAVE TO BE RIGHT. SUT HONG KONG IS STILL A Janji ducvay kmAw
UK COLONY AND WILL REMAIN SO UNTIL 1997.
HEREFORD
IT IS UNTHINK
SIGNIFICANT
INVOLVED IN
THAT
STAR THE YK WILL NOT BE
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133-WAY IN A PROJECT OF THIS
SIZE. THE PRIME MINIS R AND OTHER SENIOR
MINISTERS HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR STRONG INTEREST
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