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GRS 130
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FM HONG KONG
TO DESKBY 2309OOZ FCO
TELNO 2619
OF 23035OZ NOVEMBER 85
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
HKROILJ
GULIVED IN REGISTRY - 4 DEC 1985
286
TOP COPY
FROM WILSON. YOUR TEL. 1012 TO PEKING : REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
YOUR PARA 4. 1 SHALL MAKE THESE POINTS AS INSTRUCTED.
2. YOUR PARA 5. THE FULL TRANSLATION OF XU'S PRESS CONFERENCE
HAS HIM SPEAKING AS FOLLOWS:
'AS TO WHICH MODEL OF POLITICAL STRUCTURE IS TO BE ADOPTED, WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO HAVE DIRECT ELECTIONS OR INDIRECT ELECTIONS, OR A COMBINATION OF ELECTIONS OF CONSULTATION, THE QUESTION HAS TO BE DISCUSSED BY EVERYONE'', AS YOU WILL SEE, HE IS NOT REFERRING TO THE SAR LEGISLATURE ALONE BUT TO THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. IN LIGHT OF THIS, I THINK IT WOULD BE WRONG TO PRICK HIM UP ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT HE WAS REFERRING ONLY TO THE LEGISLATURE AND WAS THEREFORE SPEAKING AGAINST THE TERMS OF THE JOINT DECLARATION. GRATEFUL FOR YOUR AGREEMENT THEREFORE NOT (REPEAT)
NOT TO SPEAK AS IN PARA 5 OF TUR,
YOUDE
HONG KONG AGREEMENT
LIMITED
HD/HKD HD/FED
HD/PLANNING STAFF HD/PUSD
DEP HD/PUSD
RES D (MR WALKER)
PS
PS/MR FENTON
PS/PUS
SIR W HARDING
MR WILSON
SIR J FREELAND
MR J CROWLEY PUSD
COPIES TO: (VIA ADR)
MR ROBERTS NEWS DEPT MR FIFOOT LEGAL ADVS MR MARTIN ASST STAFF
CABINET OFFICE
MR MALLABY CABINET OFFICE MR DR C CHRISTOPHER
CABINET OFFICE SIR P CRADDOCK NO 10 DOWNING ST. MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
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