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30 March 1992

Clive Alderton Esq UKRep Brussels

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Foreign & Commonwealth

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London SWIA 2AH

Telephone: 071-

270 3647

Dear Clive,

ASIA WORKING GROUP, 31 MARCH: DRAFT MANDATE FOR COOPERATION WITH MACAO

1. There are a few comments.

Para II 4 (a) - we would prefer "include" to "centre on".

Para II 4 (c) 7- add "in Macao" after "social development" in the first sentence. The Community does not have competence in questions of social development in the member states. Inserting the co-signatory's name in this section follows the Brazilian precedent.

Para II 4 (c) 8- delete "trafficking": the Community's competence in drugs matters extends to reduction of production and consumption but does not empinge upon areas of enforcement. would reflect the wording agreed for the Brazil mandate.

This

Para II 4 (c) 9- add "in Macao" to the end of the sentence: the Community competence does not extend to tourism, a fact endorsed by the decision in the IGC to exclude tourism from the Treaty.

Your ever, Dominic

Dominic Meiklejohn

European Community Department (External)

cc recipients of my letter to Haf Dunstan of 24 March

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