TNAG-2410-FCO40-3504-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-Brit-1992 — Page 92

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IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT UK COMPANIES WILL BE TAKING UP THE INVITATION TO DISCUSS COOPERATION WITH CATIC ON THE HONG HONG AIRPORT PROJECT. I WROTE TO MEMBERS OF THE UK AIRPORTS GROUP, WHO SEEMED MOST LIKELY OF UK COMPANIES TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT AT THIS STAGE IN CONNECTION WITH CATIC, INFORMING THEM OF THE INVITATION AND PROVIDING DETAIL FROM THE CHINA BRITAIN TRADE GROUP ON THE MINISTRY OF AEROSPACE AND CATIC. I ASKED THAT THEY CONTACT EITHER PEP1B OR THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN PEKING. SINCE THEY HAVE NOT DONE SO BY THIS STAGE A NEGATIVE REPLY CAN BE ASSUMED.

2. THERE ARE TWO PROBABLE REASONS FOR THIS: LATENESS OF THE APPROACH (I.E. THE UK COMPANIES WHO WANT CHINESE INVOLVEMENT PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE IT) AND THE NATURE OF CATIC, WHO DO NOT SEEM PARTICULARLY EQUIPPED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROJECT.

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