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FROM: I A ROBERTS
NEWS DEPARTMENT
DATE: 26 June 1984
cc: Sir Percy Cradock
HONG KONG: SIR S Y CHUNG's VISIT TO PEKING
1. As agreed in our telephone conversation today, I spoke
to Rodney Deitch, Lobby correspondent of (inter alia) the
Oriental Daily News to answer his two questions about the
brusque treatment meted out to Sir S Y Chung and his colleagues
and Sir S Y Chung's suggestion (reported in The Financial Times
today) that a law-monitoring committee should be appointed in Hong
Kong.
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2. I told Mr Deitch that I had nothing to add to the Governor's
remarks of support for the Unofficials (of which he was unaware)
as he left Kai Tak for Peking earlier today (HK telno 1693 ). his second question I said that all proposals and suggestions by
leading Hong Kong personalities would of course be taken into account
but we were not going to be drawn into commenting on each proposal.
3.
unattributably our
When asked whether he could characterise
reaction to the proposal as cool, I replied that I could neither guide
him nor gloss my earlier remarks further.
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