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MR GOODLAD'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: 11-12 OCTOBER 1993

BRIEF NUMBER 11

MEETING WITH MR HUGH DAVIES (UKREP JLG)

Points to make

Thank you for your three months' hard work as Senior British

Trade Commissioner.

What is your judgement of the mood in the business community?

JLG XXVII was extremely disappointing:

what is the prospect

for co-operation in the JLG if the talks fail?

Defence Lands the only subject on which we seem close to an

outcome. How do you think it will play in Hong Kong, while the

rest of the JLG is deadlocked?

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How soon will we have to start taking unilateral action, for

instance on localisation of laws and would this affect

co-operation in other areas?

Are you worried about the impact of China's Preliminary

Work Committee on the work of the JLG? Anything we can

or should do about it

How do you see your role in relation to the new

Consulate-General?

Hope you will take over from Tony Galsworthy as an informal adviser to the Governor on the talks and other Hong Kong/China

issues.