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To:-
K(69)1
28 March 1969
Type 1 +
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Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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CABINET
MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG
HONG KONG: LONG-TERM STUDY
Note by the Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs
I am circulating herewith, for
consideration at a meeting of the Committee,
a copy of an interdepartmental study by
officials on future policy in regard to
Hong Kong.
2. An interim report (OPD (67)61) was
prepared in July 1967 on the prospects for
withdrawal from Hong Kong if it were suddenly
forced upon us.
Officials were further
instructed (OPD(67)20th Meeting) to examine
policy towards our tenure of Hong Kong in
the long term, on the basis that we could not
rely on remaining in Hong Kong on present
terms until the lease of the New Territories
lapsed in 1997 and should therefore consider
what adaptations of its status might be
possible and desirable after the conclusion
of the present conflict in Viet-Nam.
13.