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3. Opposition which we communicated to Dr Bühler at the time, is that HMG recognised North Korea in August 1991 while supporting its entry to the United Nations. currently have no plans to establish diplomatic relations. Nevertheless we see no political objections to North Korean membership of the Asian Development Bank. In any case our standard policy is that matters relating to international financial institutions are decided on economic and
whermore technical rather than political grounds.We would in-any case regard the issue of North Korea's ratification of the IAEA Agreement as totally irrelevant to the issue of Asian Development Bank membership. Spoke on these lines some weeks ago to time
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4. We agree with your paragraph 4 as far as it goes. in our view it is for the Asian Development Bank, not the government which is hosting the Annual Meeting, to decide who should be invited as observers to the Annual Meeting. The host government would have an interest only if there were a risk of known terrorists or political undesirables wishing to attend an international meeting on their territory, a contingency which is not likely to arise in
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