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COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING, NEW DELHI 23 - 29 NOVEMBER 1983: BRIEFING FOR THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE UK DELEGATION: HONG KONG,
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Mr Illman's (CCD) minute of 25 October recorded the PUS's instruction that all briefs on which the FCO are leading must be cleared with a Deputy Under-Secretary. A finalised brief must reach CCD by 6.00 pm on Wednesday 2 November.
I attach the draft of the Background Brief (No C5) which we have been asked to provide on Hong Kong.
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BY CHIL
2 November 1983
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