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HKA 182/3

CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG

TO ROUTINE FCO

TELNO

2944

OF 23022OZ DECEMBER 92

Mr Marin Plse B. L.

CONFIDENTIAL

For

2611 Noted

This AAT

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Miny Bunch

3/1

We will need to

FOR MR NIGEL WHITNEY, HONG KONG DEPT.

AIRPORT CONTRACTS.

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Mr Mary

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follow up an

this towards the

heard

and of Jane if nothing is

before then

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the eve of reb, when

1. IN MY LETTER OF 17 NOVEMBER I PROMISE YOU A FURTHER REPLY ON

AIRPORT CONTRACTS ONCE WE HAD HAD TIME HERE TO EXAMINE THE ISSUES

IN MORE DETAIL.

be lewer

23/12. this may

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y to cew

recevrata.

2. YOU WILL NOT BE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT THIS RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ISSUES PRESENTED BY THE NEED TO AWARD PAA FRANCHISES NEXT YEAR IS TAKING US SOME TIME HERE. THE ISSUES ARE COMPLEX, NOT THE LEAST BECAUSE THE BILL, THE LAND GRANT, THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT AND THE AWARD OF FRANCHISES WILL CLEARLY BE LINKED IN THE MINDS

OF POTENTIAL INVESTORS.

3. WE ARE THINKING THESE ISSUES THROUGH HERE IN THE LIGHT OF CURRENT POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND I WILL REVERT TO YOU ON THIS

AS EARLY AS I CAN IN THE NEW YEAR.

PATTEN

4. BEST WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS, AND FOR 1993.

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