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Hong Kong Monetary Authority 香港金融管理局

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3 November 1993

Mr. David Peretz

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UK Executive Director in IMF/IBRD

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1-2 1993

Dear David,

1997 Annual Meetings

Thank you very much for sight of your letter to John Cunliffe we received this morning (3 Nov).

On visas, we are content with the several possible

approaches

(a)

(b)

(c)

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to persuade the Chinese to accept the original formulation. But as you said, this might be difficult and the most you might get is Chinese agreement to revert to Bank/Fund in a joint demarche to press them to accept a neutral formulation;

subject to sight of text, a neutral formulation which would not prejudice our autonomy would be acceptable to us; and

to seek delete

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the agreement of the Chinese and Bank/Fund to the relevant sentences in the PRC letter and the Our ground is that there is already a general Exom the UK and China on the issuance of visas,

the sentences in question concern only technical details on the handling of unexpired visas and should deleted and left for detailed discussions at a later stage. We appreciate Bank/Fund's wish to see specifics included in the documents Dut they should also appreciate that we cannot force statements on visa matters not yet Chinese, particularly when such prejudice such discussions.

the inclusion of discussed with the statements would

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