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Issue pase
MKK 040/5
+
12 APR 1983
NO. 31
Mr Donald
Private Secretary
cc: PS/Lord Belstead
PS/PUS
Mr Giffard
108
FLAG A
(99)
ARY
on Talen
*CHIOA
FUTURE OF HONG KONG: VIEWS OF SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER
1. I attach a copy of Hong Kong telegram number reporting the Governor's conversation with Lee Kuan Yew on 23 March on the future of Hong Kong. Because of the request in the last paragraph of the telegram this has not been given a full future of Hong Kong distribution.
2. Lee Kuan Yew's views are very sensible. He sums up very well Hong Kong's requirement the continuation of the ''insulator'' of British administration and China's need for a forthcoming British position on sovereignty.
3. Although a fuller account is promised by bag, I suggest that the Prime Minister should be told of Lee Kuan Yew's views right away. I submit a draft letter.
30 March 1983
R D Clift
Hong Kong and General Department
I
appee
that we should pan
on Lee's
vrein at ance
to No 10, and wit the
draft. It speaks for itself
Astrald
373
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