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MY TELNO 1381: SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH WU XUEQIAN
1. FURTHER TO PARA. 5 OF TUR, # SEEM TO RECALL (ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT
NOW PUT OUR HANDS ON THE RELEVANT PAPERS HERE) THAT THE SPEEDING
UP OF THE DISTRICT BOARD PROCESS BEGAN AFTER A VHISHIT TO LONDON MIN
1979 BY URBAN COUNCILLORS ELSIE ELLIOTT AND BROOK BERNACCHI AND
THE PUTTING-DOWN OF AN EARLY DAY MOT:HON IN PARLIAMENT WHICH
ATTRACTED ABOUT 150 SIGNATURES. MR. BLAKER THEN TOOK THE MATTER
UP WITH THE THEN GOVERNOR DURING ONE OF HIS VISITS TO LONDON.
2. #F A CHECK OF THE PAPERS SHOWS MY MEMORY TO BE CORRECT, YOU MAY WISH TO SUGGEST TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE THAT OF WU DOES ARGUE
THAT HMG HAS ONLY TAKEN AN INTEREST IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SINCE THE NEGOTINATIONS BEGAN, HE MIGHT QUOTE THESE EVENTS AS EVIDENCE THAT PRESSURE ON THIS SUBJECT BEGAN, IN HONG KONG AND (IN PARLIAMENT, WELL BEFORE 1982. THE 1982 DB ELECTIONS AND THE 1984 GREEN AND WHITE PAPERS WERE ONLY THE CULMINATION OF A PROCESS THAT
STARTED MUCH EARLIER.
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HONG KONG AGREEMENT
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HD/FED
HD/PLANNING STAFF
DEP HD/PUSD
HD/PUSD
RD (MR WALKER)
COPIES TO:- MR ROBERTS MR FIFOOT
MR WOOD MR PEIRCE
MR MALLABY
NEWS DEPT
LEGAL ADVISERS LEGAL ADVISERS
ASSESSMENTS STAFF CABINET OFFICI
CABINET OFFICE
MR DRC CHRISTOPHER CABINET OFFICE SIR P CRADOCK NO 10 DOWNING STREET
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PS/LADY YOUNG
PS/MR RENTON
PS/PUS
SIR W HARDING
SIR J FREELAND
MR WILSON
MR CROWLEY
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