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SUPPLEMEN TARY SPEAKING NOTE
Annual Report on Hong Kong
HONG KONG
[If there is pressure for a debatel
For discussion through
1.
the usual channels.
Constitutional Development
2.
is not
up to Chinese
is responsible
[If it is suggested that HMG
standing
pressure on constitutional reform in Hong Kong] HMG
for the administration of Hong Kong up to 30 June 1997. We will
exercise that responsibility fully and prudently in the interests of
continuing economic prosperity and stability. The next review of
constitutional development will take place in 1987: what is needed
now is for the reforms made as a
result of the 1984 White Paper to
have time to settle down.