20
CANFO 004/27
DD FCO 27090OZ
0626/277
DD HONG KONG 2707302 (PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR)
00 PEKING PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR)
GRS 290
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Hod/HILD.
Enlis
IMMEDIATE
MKK040/6.
XECEIVED IN REGISTRY
37 JAN1984
DECK OFFICER
SECRET
DEDIP
DD 2709OOZ
DD 27073OZ
INDEX
FM CANBERRA 270625Z JAN 84
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
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TELEGRAM NUMBER 48 OF 27 JANUARY
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INFO IMMEDIATE DESKBY 27073OZ HONG KONG (PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR) IMMEDIATE PEKING (PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR)
YOUR TELNO 40: FUTURE OF HONG KONG: BRIEFING MR HAWKE
FOLLOWING FROM CULLIMORE
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1. IN THE ABSENCE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER I HAVE BRIEFED MCINNES (DUS EQUIVALENT IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT) AND CONYBEARE (AUS EQUIVALENT) IN TERMS OF YOUR TUR. CONYBEARE, THOUGH NOT MCINNES, WILL ACCOMPANY MR HAWKE TO HONG KONG AND PEKING.
2. MCINNES SAID HE WAS SURE MR HAWKE WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL FOR OUR EFFORTS TO BRIEF HIM SO QUICKLY AFTER THE EIGHTH ROUND OF TALKS. AS REGARDS PARAGRAPHS 6(A) AND (B) OF YOUR TUR MCINNES SAID THAT THESE FORMULATIONS WOULD SIT EASILY WITH THE KIND OF REMARKS MR HAWKE HAD BEEN BRIEFED TO MAKE SHOULD THE SUBJECT OF HONG KONG COME UP AS MCINNES EXPECTED IT WOULD. HOWEVER IT WOULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE MR HAWKE'S INTENTION TO GET INVOLVED IN ANY WAY IN OUR BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CHINESE. I SAID THAT IT WAS OF COURSE NOT OUR INTENTION THAT
HE SHOULD.
3. AS REGARDS MR HAWKE'S VISIT TO HONG KONG MCINNES UNDERLINED THAT THE AUSTRALIANS WERE TREATING IT VERY MUCH AS A STOP-OVER. APART FROM THE LUNCH AND PRE-LUNCH DISCUSSIONS WITH THE GOVERNOR ON 30 JANUARY MR HAWKE'S ONLY OTHER ENGAGEMENT WAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE EDITOR OF THE FAR EAST ECONOMIC REVIEW TO TALK ABOUT
THE OBJECTIVES OF HIS ASIAN TOUR.
4. SINCE THIS BRIEFING WE HAVE SEEN PEKING TELNO 147. MR HAWKE WOULD NO DOUBT FIND IT NATURAL FOR SIR E YOUDE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF BRIEFING HIM PERSONALLY ABOUT THE LATEST ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS THOUGH THERE SHOULD BE NO NEED TO GO OVER THE DETAILS AGAIN. BEYOND THIS MCINNES INDICATED THIS MORNING THAT MR HAWKE WOULD PROBABLY BE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN HEARING THE GOVERNOR'S VIEWS IN A MORE GENERAL WAY ABOUT THE LIKELY
FUTURE EVOLUTION OF HONG KONG.
MASON
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