GRS 100
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 1317
OF 05090OZ SEPTEMBER 85
INFO PRIORITY PEKING
FOLLOWING FOR GALSWORTHY, HONG KONG DEPARTMENT FROM GOVERNOR.
1. A RECENT VISITOR TO LONDON HAS REPORTED A RUMOUR SAID TO BE
CIRCULATING THERE THAT A BASIC DIFFERENCE OF VIEW HAS ARISEN
BETWEEN HMG AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ON THE INTERPRETATION OF
THE JOINT DECLARATION AND NEWS OF THIS IS ABOUT TO BREAK.
I CANNOT THINK WHAT THIS RUMOUR MIGHT BE FOUNDED ON. THERE MAY, OF COURSE, BE DIFFERENCES ABOUT THE PACE OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT OR THE QUESTION OF HOW HONG KONG SHOULD
CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE GATT BUT THESE ARE NOT, IT SEEMS
TO ME, VERY DRAMATIC.
HAVE YOU HEARD ANY RUMOURS OF THIS KIND.
YOUDE
німітєр
HK ?
MR WILSON
CONFIDENTIAL
HKK
RECEIV
070/12.
OSEP 1965
DESK OF PIDET. INDEX
Taken
w
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