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would not be prudent or appropriate.

In a LEGCO adjournment debate,

Miss Lydia Dunn has urged that if an overwhelming majority had

reservations about an critical part of the agreement, both the

Chinese and British Government should be prepared to reconsider it.

6. We are considering separately, in the light of discussions at Mr

Luce's meeting yesterday, whether to ask the Hong Kong Government

intervene in the debate to revise the more

downbeat comment in the

Hong Kong press over the last week.

15 August 1984

Трубный

A C Galsworthy

Hong Kong Department

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