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officials would be appropriate and presentationally helpful.
do not however want to encourage participation by extraneous
Hong Kong figures who have played no part in either the negotiations
or the administration of the territory.
5.
Sir Y K is visiting London shortly. He wall call on the
Prime Minister on 16 November, and has also invited Mr Luce to
dinner. I understand that the Secretary of State has
lunch on 17 November.
invited him to
A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
7 November 1984
1.
We must expect considerable pressure from Y K Pao to get in
on the act. In addition to the engagements above, he has asked me
to lunch on 16 November. But the line proposed above is right.
It will be very much misunderstood, particularly in Hong Kong, if
he were to appear centre stage, as is his wont, or indeed anywhere
on stage during the visit.
2.
It is not strictly correct to say that he has played absolutely
no part in the negotiations. During his call in July he asked whether there was anything he could do to help, saying he had good
contacts with Chinese leaders. I said he could convey to them
the acute problems created for us by their proposal of a Joint Liaison Group. He duly passed on this message, but only to
Xu Jiatun, the Head of NCNA, not at any higher level. This in no
way invalidates the case above, but we must expect YK to make as
much of it as he can.
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Percy Cradock
7 November 1984
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