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British Trade Commission Hong Kong
9th Floor
Bank of America Tower 18 Harcourt Road Central
Hong Kong
Tel No: 523 0176 Fax No: 845 2870
26 August 1993
Simply for the record, we have had four separate visits to Hong Kong over the recent weeks by individual MPs or groups of MPs. I have personally seen them all. They were all in some ways guests of HKG.
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The first was Peter Luff MP on 2 August. He was bright and very sensible, with a balanced appreciation of developments in Hong Kong and an informed and imaginative curiosity about how to promote British trade here and into China. I recommend keeping in touch with him.
3. The second individual was Douglas Hoyle MP on 23 August. He was rather pathetically grateful for every nugget of briefing I gave him, pretty unsighted and entirely new to Hong Kong. His heart appeared to be very much in the right place and I would judge that after this visit, he will in future be quite supportive of what the Governor is trying to achieve.
4. The first of the groups of MPs was one from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association led by Sir Anthony Durant. I saw him, supported by Chris Osborne on 13 August. They were a pretty aggressive bunch, extremely cynical about the way the airport had been handled by HKG and generally prejudiced about HMG official support for trade. No doubt, individually, they would have presented very much better. I suspect that they were playing off each other and not taking the Hong Kong leg of their visit very seriously. Andrew Pearson, who accompanied them, found them a pretty trying group.
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