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HUD
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
MKK040/17
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1 2 JUL 1984
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10 July, 1984
(40)
Dear Richard,
Circulation of Ministerial Correspondence: Hong Kong
38) Thank you for your letter of 4 July.
We have noted all the points you have made, and shall do our utmost to comply more closely with your requirements in future. You will appreciate, however, that we are dealing with a diplomatic negotiation of great pace and complexity; that each move has to be the subject of precise consultation with the Peking Embassy and the Hong Kong Government; that the Hong Kong Executive Council also has a role to play in advising the Governor; and that crowded programmes of Ministerial travel make it difficult to fit in the direct consultation with our Ministers that is frequently necessary before our papers can be prepared. In all these circumstances I fear that we may still sometimes fall short of the ideal.
I am copying this to Charles Powell (No 10).
RP Hatfield Esq Cabinet Office
Yours
eve,
Len Appleyard
(L V Appleyard) Private Secretary
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