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WORK ON BEHALF OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
1. Please refer to your letter of 7 August and my subsequent
holding reply. I apologise for the length of time it has taken
to get back to you with a substantive reply. The following
reflects comments from Hong Kong Department, DOT and the Hong
Kong Government.
2.
The first thing to say on all of this is that there is no
formal agreement between HMG and HKG on the role of Hong Kong's
Economic and Trade Offices. In practice, their role varies
from office to office, and the FCO has left it to individual
overseas Posts to use their common sense in deciding what they
should and should not do for Hong Kong.
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3.
HKG's view is that, as currently constituted, ETOS
(including the one in Washington) lack the ability to monitor
and report in depth on what is a specialist technical subject.
HKG say, however, that ETOS would be able to help ESB in
seeking information from and passing messages to host
governments in simple and straightforward cases. HKG have not
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.