PRIAVL (2)
CONFIDENTIAL
SIR Y K PAO'S CHEVENING Weekend: 13-14 SEPTEMBER 1986
(a) Hong Kong: Representative Government
Background
1.
The Secretary of State is aware that Sir Y K shares
Chinese concerns over the pace of constitutional change in
Hong Kong and has in the past sought to reflect these
Ministers.
As the
2.
During Sir Y K's last round of calls on Ministers in
June, he raised the question of when and how a a Hong Kong "Chief Executive" might be added to the existing Hong Kong
system as Deputy to the Governor before 1997.
Secretary of State is aware, we are now examining in detail
how a Chief Executive could be introduced, under a British
Governor, in the early 1990s. Sir Y K is of course unaware either of the detailed thought that we are now giving to
this issue, or of our plan (in the light of the Governor's recent discussions in Peking)
in Peking) to propose introducing this
question into our dialogue with the Chinese.
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