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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

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HONG KONG

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Mr R.A.J. Bunten

Hong Kong Department

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Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)

Thank you for your letter of 3 June 1992.

As stated in our teleletter of 24 January to you, we regard the continued participation by Hong Kong tertiary institutions in the ACU as part of their academic links with overseas tertiary institutions and the wider international academic community. As these links between non-governmental organisations, we would not wish to intervene and will leave the tertiary institutions at liberty to decide whether they wish to maintain such links.

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We however consider that the course of amending the Royal Charter is a high profile exercise. We would very much prefer the ACU to seek other ways, if possible, to achieve the same purpose of allowing our tertiary institutions to maintain their links with the ACU.

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Notwithstanding the above, if the ACU finds that only feasible way forward is to amend the Charter, we would not wish to block it.

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to the Charter, we agree with the legal advice given by Miss Shelagh Brooks in her letter of 29 May to the Privy Council Office.

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