COVERING SECRET
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
FILE
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Sir Murray MacLehcse GBE KCMG
Your reference
KCVO
c/o Hong Kong Government Office
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لا فله
$24
Our reference
Date
24 August 1981
You asked for the records of your meetings with various Foreign Secretaries when the death penalty in Hong Kong was discussed. All we have been able to produce are those of three meetings with James Callaghan and these are attached.
The Colonial Secretary's statement in the Legislative Council on 6 November 1975 is also attached.
P J Williamson
Hong Kong and General Department
COVERING SECRET