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FM FCO 201735Z JANUARY 84
TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 93 OF 20 JANUARY
AND TO IMMEDIATE PEKING
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HONG KONG TELNOS 93, 94 AND 164 AND PEKING TELNO 85:
FUTURE OF
HONG KONG: WORKING PAPER ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES
1. MIFT CONTAINS A DRAFT WORKING PAPER WHICH INCORPORATES THE
DRAFT IN HONG KONG TELNO 94, THE POINTS IN PEKING TUR, SOME
THOUGHTS OF OUR OWN AND POINTS RAISED AT MR LUCE'S MEETING WITH
THE UNOFFICIALS.
2.
THE MAIN CHANGES FROM HONG KONG'S DRAFT ARE:
(A) PARAGRAPHS 1-4.
REDRAFTED TO INCLUDE THE POINTS IN PARAGRAPH
2(A) OF PEKING TUR.
(B) PARAGRAPH 5-9. THESE INCORPORATE AND EXPAND ON HONG KONG
PARAGRAPHS 5 AND 6, AND TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE POINTS IN PEKING
TUR. WE CONSIDER IT IMPORTANT TO STATE CLEARLY THE INTERNAL
AND EXTERNAL POWERS OF THE SAR GOVERNMENT (PARAGRAPH 6).
(C) PARAGRAPH 11. THIS IS NOW AS PROPOSED IN HONG KONG TELNO 113
AND AMENDED BY PEKING TELNO 84. HOWEVER WE WONDER WHETHER IT IS
NOT STILL TOO SPECIFIC IN STIPULATING APPOINTMENT BY RESOLUTION
OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WOULD IT BE WISER TO PRESERVE SOME
LATITUDE (EG. IN CASE A REAL MINISTERIAL SYSTEM DEVELOPED BEFORE
1997)? AN ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE TO SAY: '... APPOINTED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH PROCEDURES IN FORCE IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO 1 JULY
1997'.
(D) PARAGRAPH 12-16. WE THINK IT IS BETTER NOT TO SPELL OUT THE
COMPOSITION OF THE COUNCILS AND BOARDS. AS AGREED AT MR LUCE'S
MEETING WE MUST PRESERVE MAXIMUM FREEDOM OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE
PERIOD UP TO 1997.
(E) WE HAVE DRAFTED AN ANNEX ON FLAGS AS THESE ARE NOT COVERED
ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORKING PAPERS.
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