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OECD/HONG KONG: PROBABLE APPLICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORK OF THE TRADE COMMITTEE

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1. Thank you for your letter of 11 June (not to all).

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2. I am grateful to you for this prompt response to my request for guidance for my meeting with Joseph Wong, the Hong Kong Representative to the GATT, who called on me earlier today.

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Wong told me that he now had the go-ahead from the Governor to start moving towards a formal application for observer status for Hong Kong on the Trade Committee. At this stage they do not intend looking further than the Trade Committee and the Trade Committee Working Party; but they may ask to participate in other committees in due course. I suggested that the formal letter of application might best be from the Governor to the Secretary General and undertook to provide some examples of similar applications for observership of committees from other non-members.

4. The Hong Kong authorities want to be reasonably assured that they will be successful before submitting a formal application. They have not begun lobbying other OECD members yet; but Wong proposes coming back to Paris in the next couple of weeks to call on key Heads of Delegation here (notably from Hong Kong's APEC partners). At the same time his staff will deal with other delegations at trade representative level. I offered to help open doors for them as necessary and undertook to flag Hong Kong's interest to Community Ambassadors at the Twelve's next informal meeting later this month. Wong will also call again on the relevant members of the Secretariat (who already know what Hong Kong has in mind) including the two interested Deputy Secretary Generals, Taniguchi and Cornell.

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