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PATTY NO 31
CONFIDENTIAL COVERING SECRETAUG 1980
Sir E Youde
Private Secretary
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SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: 27-29 SEPTEMBER 1980
Problem
1. To resolve outstanding issues on the Secretary of State's
programme for his visit to Hong Kong.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Secretary of State agree the draft
programme, holding the police items in abeyance, and that we
resubmit on these nearer the time of the visit when we have
the Governor's up-to-date account of the situation.
a draft telegram.
Background and Argument
I submit
3. Mr Morrice, in his submission of 21 August, recommended that
the Secretary of State approve the outline programme proposed
B by the Governor (Hong Kong telegram No 1017). The Secretary of
State's and the Private Secretary's comments on it are contained
in the Private Secretary's telegram from Jeddah and take account
of the points which you added to the submission.
4.
The Private Secretary asks you to consider whether it would
be wise for Lord Carrington to go out of his way to spend time
with the Commissioner of Police and whether there is any risk
of such a meeting rebounding against the Secretary of State in
any way. There is, of course, such a risk. However, much
will depend on the progress of current investigations in Hong
Kong.
It should be perfectly possible to defer a decision on
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