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Mr Yum, LUKD!
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DATE 31 October 1983
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PS/Mr Raison
PS/Mr Rifkind Mr Houston PS/PUS
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Mr Donald
PS/Mr Luce
FUTURE OF HONG KONG : BRIEFING OF CONSERVATIVE BACK-BENCHERS AND OF THE OPPOSITION
รา) 1. Please refer to your minute of 24 October to Mr Clift.
2. I now submit, for the Secretary of State's use with the Conservative Foreign Affairs Committee on 1 November:
(a) points to make;
(b) a draft check list of these points.
You told me that notes for supplementaries need not be submitted. These have however been prepared for use if required.
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3. The briefing is on similar lines to that provided by the Department when Mr Luce briefed a selected group of Conservative back-benchers on 20 October. But it is a little more general in its approach. It is also deliberately less precise in its description of the basis on which the negotiations with the Chinese on 19/20 October
were conducted.
4. The preparation of material for the briefing of Opposition leaders (para 3 of your minute) is in hand.
31 October 1983
CONFIDENTIAL
Coltum
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
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