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Private Secretary

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FROM: R D CLIFT, HKD DATE: 3 October 1983

cc: PS/Mr Luce PS/PUS

Mr Giffard

Mr Roberts, News Dept

FUTURE OF HONG KONG: VISIT BY THE GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG AND UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

1. The Secretary of State has agreed to be host at a lunch on

Friday 7 October for the Governor of Hong Kong and the Unofficial

members of EXCO.

2. The lunch will come after the meeting that the Prime Minister

will hold with the Hong Kong delegation between 9.30 and 11.30 am

on 7 October. It would be helpful to be able to assess fully the

reactions of the Unofficials after that meeting. I therefore

recommend that lunch should be an entirely in-house affair, enabling

substantive and confidential discussion to take place. I submit

a suggest guest list, which therefore only comprises the members

of the Hong Kong delegation, together with Mr Luce and officials

dealing directly with the future of Hong Kong.

3. We are pursuing separately with the Social Secretary the practical

arrangements for the lunch. I understand that it is likely to be

at Carlton Gardens at 1245 for 1300.

3 October 1983

Brist

R D Clift

Hong Kong Department

CONFIDENTIAL

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