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THE
OF
HER MAJESTA 233/
ASSOCIATION OF MEMBERS OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE IN HONG
8th Floor, St. John's Building, 33 Garden Road, Hong Kong.
Drew Münster,
Pu
KONG
25 September 1992.
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Following your meeting with members
of the HMOCS
Association on
on 4 September 1992, I am writing to
to reiterate our concern at the apparent delay in resolving affecting HMOCS personnel in Hong Kong.
matters
When your officials sought our views in May, were led
we to believe that further consultations would take place in the summer. Possible dates in August and September have come and gone and we are now still without an assurance that a team will come out even in October.
In the absence of any demonstrable progress, there are worries here that we may be moving backwards, towards the same tense situation which prevailed earlier this year which led to anxieties being openly voiced. The calm prevailed in recent months has resulted from the belief, based that has on the assurances that have been given, that long outstanding matters were at last being
being addressed in a sensitive substantive manner and could be brought to a timely conclusion. HMOCS members are becoming increasingly concerned that their good faith and patience are indication of lack of interest in matters
perhaps being taken as an to which in fact they attach the highest importance.
and
We very much hope that fair and
comprehensive in line with those
place in other when British sovereignty ceased,
arrangements, dependent territories
be finalised before December 1992.
put in
Yours sincerely,
can
(MD Cartland ) Chairman
The Right. Honourable A Goodlad, MP,
Minister of State,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1A 2AH,
UNITED KINGDOM.
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