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GRS 100
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 2133
Confidential
OF 041005Z JULY 86
UNFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
COPY
PERSONAL FOR HUM, HKD FROM GOVERNOR
OUR TELNO 1741 : EXCO VISIT TO LONDON «N SEPTEMBER
1. * UNDERSTAND FROM MISS DUNN THAT THE IDEA OF A HONG KONG/UK
BUSINESS COOPERATION COMMITTEE HAS BEEN DROPPED THROUGH LACK OF
SUPPORT AND THAT THERE WILL THEREFORE BE NO NAUGURAL MEETING IN
SEPTEMBER (PARA. 2(B) OF TUR REFERS).
2. THE NEXT STEPS THEREFORE TO ANNOUNCE THE EXCO VISIT ITSELF.
SUGGEST THAT THIS SHOULD BE DONE ON MY RETURN TO HONG KONG AT
THE END OF AUGUST. IT WILL THEN BE DISTANCED FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT
NEXT WEEK OF MY VISIT TO PEKING. BUT WILL NEED TO TELL EXCO
BEFORE THIS. UNLESS YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION,
IN CONFIDENCE ON 8 JULY.
PROPOSE TO DO THIS
YOUDE
LIMITED
HKD
PS
PS/MR RENTON PS/PUS
SIR W HARDING
DR WILSON.
HRR 026/5.
RECEIVED IN Þ
STRY
- 8 JUL 1986
INDE
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AB817.
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