Recommendation
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22.
It is recommended that Ministers:
(i)
Chinese
agree in
principle
secure
that we should seek to
agreement to a process whereby a post of Deputy
Governor would be created in the early 1990s and
filled by
the Chief Executive (Designate) in advance of 1997:
(ii) agree that а paper should be passed to the Chinese Foreign Minister introducing the concept in general terms:
(iii) note the consequential issues discussed in the Annex to
this paper.
Ministers will be consulted further on these in
the light of the Chinese reaction.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
October 1986
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