CONFIDENTIAL
ADVANCE COPY
Record of a meeting between the Foreign and Commonwealth
Secretary and the members of the Executive and Legislative
Councils, Hong Kong at 11.20a.m. on Sunday, 19 April, 1970
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Present:
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, M.P. Sir Denis Greenhill
Mr. James Wellbeloved Mr. James Murray
Mr. J.A. N. Graham
The Hon. Sir Albert Rodrigues The Hon. Sir Cho-yiu Kwan
The Hon. J.D. Clague The Hon. Fung Ping-fan The Hon. S.S. Gordon
The Hon. Y.K. Kan,
The Hon. J.A.H. Saunders
The Hon. Tang Ping-yuan
The Hon. Fung Hon-chu
The Hon. Tse Yu-chuen
The Hon. K.A. Watson The Hon. Woo Pak-chuen The Hon. Szeto Wai
The Hon. Wilfred Wong Sien-bing The Hon. Mrs. Ellen Li Shu-piu
The Hon. Wilson T.S. Wang
The Hon. H.J.C. Browne
Dr. The Hon. Chung Sze-yuen The Hon. M.A.R. Herries The Hon. Lee Quo-wei
Sir Albert Rodrigues opened the meeting by welcoming the Secretary
of State. The members of the Executive and Legislative Councils
had a number of questions to ask.
2. Mr. Stewart said that this was an important opportunity for him
for unofficial and confidential discussions.
He had come to Hong Kong
to look and to listen; he would not be giving any answers on the spot;
some questions remained to be decided. The E.E.C. and Commercial Relations
3. Sir Albert Rodrigues asked Mr. Stewart about the negotiations for
Britain's membership of the Common Market. Mr. Stewart said that
the British Government had persisted for some years in their
application to join the Common Market.
this.
There were strong reasons for
The prospect of the enormous economic units of the U.S., the
Soviet Union and the Common Market without Britain, was not attractive
Market themselves. either for Britain or for the other members of the Commonwealth.
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