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OUR TELNO 3149: BOLIVIAN CONSULATE GENERAL
1. MR OSCAR SILES VILLARROEL HAS NOW MADE CONTRACT WITH US. HE HAS RECENTLY RETURNED TO HONG KONG AFTER ACTING AS CHARGE IN BANGKOK.
2. SILES SAYS HE HAS BEEN APPOINTED CONSUL-GENERAL IN HONG KONG BY THE NEW BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT. HE WAS TOLD BY THE BOLIVIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON THAT THE PAPERS HAD BEEN SENT TO YOU QUOTE FOUR WEEKS AGO UNQUOTE.
3. GRATEFUL TO KNOW IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO AFFORD SILES PROVISIONAL RECOGNITION. IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU COULD CONFIRM THIS DESKBY 09010OZ JAN. WE CAN THEN GAZETTE SILES ON 12 JANUARY. THERE IS NO OBJECTION FROM THIS END.
4. SILES IS A CAREER DIPLOMAT, UNLIKE HIS PREDECESSOR WHO WAS A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
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This is now rather endbarrassing I passed the Bolivian Cantonssys
original request to HKD a 24 NY. I hope we can authouse OK to
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