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FROM: K A M Saunders

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DATE: 20 June 1991

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Sir J Coles

MINITION Irecommend Chale Mackay

as Richard Lambert

PS/Lord Caithness

Private Secretary Secretary

SEMINAR ON HONG KONG, 3 JULY lette to be rentato 16

1.

I am away

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participant

I submit a list of participants for this seminar drawn beforehand

from the names approved earlier by the Secretary of State.

We have not yet had a reply from Sir Geoffrey Howe, but otherwise all those listed have agreedto come.

2.

We need to decide which of the two Hong Kong businessmen

suggested by Hong Kong we should invite: Charles Mackay or

Victor Fung (see short CVS attached). Since the Minister's idea was to invite a Chinese businessman, I recommend we go

for Victor Fung first. We will need to make clear,

tactfully, that we are not offering to pay his travel

expenses.

3.

Only one of the three journalists we asked is able to come.

If the Secretary of State would like to include another I recommend we invite Richard Lambert, Editor of the Financial Times. The Hong Kong coverage of this newspaper, both political and economic, is consistently good.

K. Sanders

KAM Saunders

I could find money for Mr Fungor Mr Machay from my

Aus Budget.

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Mortimer would be better beli

from the financial Times.

Andrew Emm

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