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Draft Submission

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Mrs Sutherland

Mr Burns

PS/Lord Caithness

HONG KONG: BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL

Problem

From:

M H R Bertram, OED

HKC

486/1.

1. The project team has now visited Hong Kong to explore the way

What should the next steps be?

forward.

11/11/97

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Recommendations

I recommend that:

a) Lord Caithness should be prepared to intercede with the Governor

if the next draft of the Private Grant Treaty takes insufficient

account of HMG's longer term interests;

b) We should proceed with colocation of the British Council as

originally proposed;

c) We should appoint

Hong Kong;

as our executive project managers in

d) We should invite outline design proposals from

e) We should strengthen and accelerate liaison with the HK

Immigration Service on accommodation-related issues.

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