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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

21 April 1993

Mr Rod Bunten,

Hong Kong Department,

Foreign & Commonwealth office,

Whj.tehall, SW1A 2AH

United Kingdom

Dear Rod

The Future of Hong Kong's Links with the Commonwealth

We are grateful for MI Ricketts' letter of 22 March advising us of FCO's views on our draft Executive Council memorandum on the future of Hong Kong's links with the Commonwealth.

We have carefully considered the points raised in the third and fourth paragraphs of that letter, and our comments are as follows:

A Item 1 (Commonwealth Youth Exchange

Annex Programme)

AS links with the youth ministries of Commonwealth countries will be maintained in the general context of international youth exchange programmes which are not limited to Commonwealth countries envisage that the Chinese wil 1 have particular difficulties with them.

alone, we do

Annex A Item 6(a) (Commonwealth Association of Law Reform Agencies and Item 6(b) (Commonwealth Legal Advisory Service (CLAS))

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The alternati.ve links are in the form of low key exchanges of reports, publications and information legal developments. These links, maintained by correspondence, are already well in place and, as you say, need not be particularly visible once the SAR is established.

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