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SECRET
FROM: CO HUM, HKD
DATE: 27 March 1986
cc: PS/Mr Renton
Sir W Harding
Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers
Mr Masefield, FED
Dr Wilson
Private Secretary
HKK
of
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- 1 AFR 1986
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"CONVERGENCE":
PROPOSED MEETING
BETWEEN THE SECRETARY OF
STATE AND THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER
PROBLEM
1.
on
"convergence"
between
our
Chinese development of representative government
HOW to initiate a more detailed dialogue with the the plans for
in Hong Kong and
Government
Chinese
1997.
planning
for
the
of structure
after
RECOMMENDATION
2.
I recommend:
i.
that the
Secretary
of State
dialogue
through
a
meeting
with
initiate
the
this
Chinese
Foreign
Minister
during the latter's European
tour in May;
ii.
that we suggest a meeting either at Chevening Saturday 10 May or in Brussels on Friday 23 May;
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