SECRET
9.
Given this uncertainty over the role of the Governor in
the 1990s, I think it would be an improvement if in paragraph 63
of the Green Paper, the second sentence referred to the selection of the Governor by an elective process as being "one possible
development" rather than "the natural development". Apart
from this small amendment, I am content with the Green Paper and I should be grateful for your agreement to it being published. After the meeting of OD(K), the procedure would be for Ministers'
comments on the Green Paper to be conveyed to EXCO at their
meeting on 3 July, and for it to be introduced in the Legislative Council, and simultaneously published, on 18 July.
10. I am copying this minute and its enclosures to members of
OD(K) and to Sir Robert Armstrong.
بلا
(GEOFFREY HOWE)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
25 June 1984
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