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POLICY

CONFIDENCE

n

Secretary of State

for Employment

7.

b) in Korea there are good prospects for further cooperation on

issues related to industrial relations. My visit to the UK National Day at the Taejon Expo was successful and I was much impressed by the effective UK contribution to the event. I am writing in more detail to Douglas Hurd about this;

c) in Hong Kong there was considerable interest in our current training programmes,

in particular those for displaced workers and we shall be supplying further information on those issues;

d) my visit to Egypt was warmly welcomed by the Egyptians, who fielded a very high-level team for our various discussions. I took the opportunity to underline our appreciation of their role in recent developments in the region. There was much Egyptian interest in our approach to privatisation and deregulation and again I was able to establish a good basis for further contacts between officials.

Sir

I am copying this minute to Douglas Hurd, Kenneth Clarke, John Patten, Ian Lang, John Redwood, Tim Sainsbury and Robin Butler.

29+€

DH

29th September 1993