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CONTRIBUTING TO THIS EFFORT IS QUITE STRIKING. AS YOU WILL PROBABLY KNOW, SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN THE FAR EASTERN REGION HAVE ALREADY CONTRIBUTED GENEROUSLY, EG TAIWAN (30 MILLION US DOLLARS) AND KOREA (102 MILLION US DOLLARS). THERE IS CERTAINLY AN ARGUMENT, WHICH I KNOW YOU WILL UNDERSTAND, THAT IT WOULD BE IN HONG KONG'S WIDER POLITICAL INTERESTS TO BE SEEN TO BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS INTERNATIONAL EFFORT.
THE EMERGENCY UNIT, WHO ARE COORDINATING THIS APPEAL, HAVE ASKED US TO FLOAT WITH YOU THE POSSIBILITY OF A CONTRIBUTION OF 15 MILLION POUNDS FROM HONG KONG. A CONTRIBUTION OF THIS SIZE, MADE DIRECTLY TO HMG, WOULD HAVE A REAL IMPACT HERE AND WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THERE MIGHT IN THE FUTURE BE A NEED FOR FURTHER MEDICAL TEAMS, ALTHOUGH AT PRESENT THE REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN FULLY SATISFIED. HUMANITARIAN DONATIONS TO THE FRONT LINE STATES (EG JORDAN) ARE ANOTHER POSSIBILITY.
7. YOU WILL NO DOUBT WISH TO REFLECT ON ALL THIS. WE LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSING THE MATTER FURTHER WITH YOU IN HONG KONG, BUT I THOUGHT THAT I SHOULD GIVE YOU FAIR WARNING.
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