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Mr Galsworthy
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Future of Hong Kong: Timing of Parliamentary Debate on
the Agreement
The Secretary of State has seen your submission of 19 September about the approximate date for the Parliamentary debate on the Agreement.
The Secretary of State agrees with you that a debate at the end of the week beginning 10 December would be dangerously late. It would also in practice be impossible for him since he will be at the NATO Ministerial meeting in Brussels from the evening of 12 December until the end of 14 December. The only possible date for him in that week is Tuesday 11 December. But even this he regards as uncomfortably late, and would much prefer to stick to the week before if the Governor can accept this.
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20 September 1984
(P F Ricketts)
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PS/Mr Luce Sir P Cradock PS/PUS
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