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ASSOCIATION OF MEMBERS OF HER OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE IN HONG
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MAJESTY'S
KONG
25 September 1992.
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Following your meeting with members of the HMOCS Association on 4 September 1992, I am writing to reiterate our concern at the apparent delay in resolving matters affecting HMOCS personnel in Hong Kong.
When your officials sought our views in May, we were led 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 that has prevailed in recent months has resulted from the belief, based on the assurances that have been given,
that have been given, that long outstanding matters were at last being addressed in a sensitive and substantive manner and could be brought to a timely conclusion. HMOCS members are becoming increasingly concerned that their good faith and patience are perhaps being taken as an indication of lack
lack of
of interest in matters to which in fact they attach the highest importance.
We very much hope that fair and comprehensive arrangements, in line with those put in place in other dependent territories when British sovereignty ceased, be finalised before December 1992.
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(MD Cartland ) Chairman
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The Right Honourable A Goodlad, MP,
Minister of State,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1A 2AH,
UNITED KINGDOM.
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