COLAOX
HKK 027/8
RECHALLO
과
INDER
23 JUL 1986
Mr Houston
Special Adviser
FROM: CO HUM, HKD
RY
DATE: 14 July 1986
Locman Taken
Mr Harrison, Consular Dept
VISIT TO HONG KONG BY MR JAMES SPICER MP
1.
Thank you for your minute of 9 July. I have discussed it with Mr Harrison, since Consular Department is taking
the lead on questions relating to the voting rights of.
British citizens abroad.
2. I understand that Consular Department will be sending a telegram to Hong Kong and to other posts on Mr Spicer's
itinerary.
This telegram will suggest that his local
contacts should be Mr H Y Chan in the Immigration Department of the Hong Kong Government for matters relating to British citizens in Hong Kong, and Mr Parkinson in the British Trade Commission for matters relating to British citizens in Macau. If Mr Spicer would like a more general briefing on the situation in Hong Kong I suggest that he should contact the acting Political Adviser, Mr Bob Peirce (a member of the Diplomatic Service).
3. If Mr Spicer would like to have a general briefing on Hong Kong before his departure I am of course very ready to
should note give him
that however
will I
entirely tied up in meetings on 18 July.
one.
I
be
14 July 1986
Wooten
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department