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RF Cornish

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 had sight of 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 agree that it will be important for us to translate our

present significant involvement in scholarship schemes in Hong Kong into a concrete and visible presence post-1997. At first glance the British Council's proposal for our financial involvement in their planned MTC seems worth considering. principle I would be prepared to include the MTC project in our plans for future scholarships provided we can be certain

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