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Private Secretary (Mr Ricketts)
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FROM: Sir Ian Sinclair
DATE: 7 March 1984
cc: (without enclosures)
PS/Mr Luce PS/PUS
Sir P Craddock Sir W Harding
Dr Wilson
Mr Clift Hong Kong Dept
Mr Burrows Legal Advisers
Mr Thomson FED
Miss Neville-Jones, Planning Staff Mr Roberts, News Dept
Protocol Dept
ECD(I) with copy of Mr Rickett's
minute to Mr Clift of 7 March
VISIT BY SECRETARY OF STATE TO PEKING AND HONG KONG
1.
Please refer to the final paragraph of your minute to Mr Clift of 7 March.
2.
You ask for useful precedents for White Papers stemming, for instance, from the negotiations leading up to our joining the European Community. I attach a representative selection of White Papers covering a 7 year period from 1967 to 1975. This representative selection consists of the following:
(a) Membership of the European Communities (May 1967):
Cmnd 3269. (This consists of a statement made by the then Prime Minister to the House of Commons on 2 May 1967 relating to the second application to join the European Communities);
(b) Legal and Constitutional Implications of United
Kingdom Membership of the European Communities (May 1967): Cmnd 3301. (This consists of a brief analysis of the impact of European Community law on domestic law in the United Kingdom);
(c) The United Kingdom and the European Communities
(July 1971): Cmnd 4715. (This was, according to my recollection, issued in anticipation of the major two-day debate held in both Houses of Parliament in October 1971: it sets out arguments for entry and contains a detailed statement of the outcome of the negotiations between 30 June 1970 and July 1971);
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