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December 1993

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RF Cornish Esq

Senior British Trade Commissioner

British Trade Commission

Hong Kong

BRITISH COUNCIL:

MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE IN HONG KONG

I read with interest your account of the work being done by

the British Council on their planned Management Training Centre (MTC) in your letter of 11 October and am conscious that a reply to your proposal for HMG's involvement in the

Centre is due. I have since also seen James Smith-Laittan's

letter to John Morris of 5 November containing a slightly

more detailed proposal from the British Council on how they

see the role of HMG in the future running of the MTC.

I am sorry that it has taken us so long to respond, but we

wanted to consider your ideas carefully. We start from the

same position as you: we want to make the best use of our

available scholarship funds, in a way which promotes our interests and maintains as far as possible the goodwill and good contacts built up in Hong Kong over the years by our hitherto extensive involvement in scholarships.

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