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CONFIDENTIAL
HKLOH Акконоl
1 8 NOV 1989
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128
mentary
Parliamentary Unit
PQS HONG KONG CHINA'S ATTITUDE
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1. I submit draft written replies to four PQs by
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Mr Frank Hooley MP (Sheffield Labour). The drafts have
been agreed with the Hong Kong Government and HMA, Peking.
FED and Legal Adviser concur.
2. Mr Hooley has taken a keen interest in the past in
Hong Kong. It is, however, more than a year since he put a
Question on the subject to the FCO.
3. The first Question is hypothetical but it is preferable
to say that there are no plans to change the status of Hong
Kong than to decline toanswer it.
4.
The second Question deals with the intentions of the
Chinese Government as well as of HMG. We do not know the
former. I have therefore suggested that the reply should
simply state that we have not discussed this with the Chinese
this is better than a straight 'No'.
5.
The third Question is similar to one Mr Hooley asked on
15 November 1976. The letter referred to in that and the draft
reply was HMG's response to the Chinese Government's request
that Hong Kong (and Macao) be removed from the UN list of
dependent territories. In his letter, Sir Colin Crowe, then
Ambassador to the UN, stated that the decision to delete
Hong Kong from the list 'in no way affects the legal status
of Hong Kong' and that differing views expressed by other
Governments were unacceptable to the UK.
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