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TELEGRAM NUMBER 3837 OF 20 DECEMBER
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES BRUSSELS, GENEVA, WASHINGTON AND NEW
YORK
FOR HONG KONG GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES.
HKG/GT/84 SIGNATURE OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG
1. ON BEHALF OF THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS, THE PRIME MINISTER, MRS. MARGARET THATCHER AND THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER, MR. ZHAO ZIYANG SIGNED THE AGREEMENT ON THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG IN A CEREMONY AT THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE IN PEKING ON 19 DECEMBER. THE CEREMONY WAS WITNESSED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MILITARY ADVISORY COMMISSION OF THE CENTRAL PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT, MR. DENG XIAOPING, PRESIDENT LI XIANNIAN, STATE COUNCILLOR JI PENGFEI, FOREIGN MINISTER WU XUEQIAN, THE SECRETARY OF STATE, SIR GEOFFREY HOWE AND THE GOVERNOR. ALSO PRESENT WAS A REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATION OF HONG KONG PEOPLE INCLUDING THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF EXCO, SIR S.Y. CHUNG, AND THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF LEGCO, MR. ROGER LOBO, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS AND OTHER PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE HONG KONG COMMUNITY.
2. ON THE SAME DAY MES. THATCHER HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH MR. DENG XIAOPING, MR. ZHAO ZIYANG AND THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY MR. HU YAODANG. THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAD A SEPARATE MEETING WITH THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER MR. WU XUEQIAN.
3. TEXTS OF THE SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND MR. ZHAO ZIYANG AT THE SIGNATURE CEREMONY AND OF THE SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE PRIME MINISTER AT THE SUBSEQUENT BANQUET HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENT TO YOU.
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