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FM HONG KONG

TO PRIORITY FCO

to Mary Kay

TELNO 132

OF 1609OOZ

JANUARY 92

AND TO PRIORITY UKDEL

AND TO PRIORITY UKREP

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IMF/IBRD WASHINGTON, PEKING

JLG HONG KONG

1997 IMF/IBRD ANNUAL MEETINGS

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TIM THAHANE, WORLD BANK VP AND SECRETARY, CALLED ON SMA ON 30 DECEMBER 91 TO BRIEF US ON THE OUTCOME OF HIS DISCUSSIONS IN BEIJING WITH THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND VICE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND IN HONG KONG WITH GUO FENGMIN, THE SENIOR CHINESE REPRESENTATIVE JLG

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(B)

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CHINA REAFFIRMED THEIR STRONG SUPPORT OF THE BID FOR HK TO HOST THE MEETINGS AND ASSURED THAHANE THAT THEY WOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH THE PLANNING WORK IN HK AND THAT THE PLANNING TEAM WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED AFTER 1997:

CHINA WOULD REFLECT ON THAHANE'S SUGGESTION THAT THE CONDUCT OF THE MEETINGS SHOULD FOLLOW THE BERLIN MODEL

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Mr Jackelts My firm

(without lookin THAHANE TOLD THE CHINESE THAT (CONTRARY TO WHAT THE at the papers)

THE BERLIN MAYOR SPOKE FIRST, FOLLOWED BY THE FEDERAL recollection

MINISTER OF FINANCE AND FRG CHANCELLOR:

CHINESE HAD PROPOSED) HE THOUGHT IT PREFERABLE FOR INVITATIONS TO THE MEETINGS TO BE ISSUED BY THE UK,

is that UIDEL

AFTER CONSULTING WITH THE CHINESE, SINCE THERE WOULD have always

BE AT LEAST FOUR YEARS OF PLANNING UNDER THE UK FLAG:

AND

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THAHANE LEFT A THOUGH WITH THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE THAT

AFTER 1997 CHINA SHOULD APPOINT AN ADVISER FROM THE HK kod

ADMINISTRATION TO THE OFFICE OF THE CHINESE ED AT THE BANK TO HELP ENSURE HK'S INTEREST.

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PaNNing,

IN RESPONSE, SMA NOTED THAT THE WORLD BANK AND HK SHARED THE SAME CONCERN THAT THE MEETING SHOULD PROJECT A POSITIVE IMAGE OF HK, DEMONSTRATING THE AUTONOMY OF HK IN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL MATTERS AND HK'S STABILITY AFTER THE CHANGE-OVER IN 1997.

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