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FROM: A C Galsworthy
DATE: 8 January 1986
cc: PS/Mr Renton
Sir W Harding
Quadran 9
HONG KONG: LETTER FROM MR JACKSON - LIPKIN
Problem
1.
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A
Mr Jackson-Lipkin.
A letter to
the Secretary of State from the Hon Justice How should we reply?
Recommendation
2.
1
B
1
I recommend that the Secretary of State replies on the
lines of the first attached draft (draft A), which takes into account the Governor's strong hope that the Secretary of State should not correspond with Mr Jackson-Lipkin on the substance
Corap B) of his letter. I attach a second draft which could be sent if
the Secretary of State felt that this advice was not
text has been cleared with the Hong Kong
acceptable: its
Government.
twhich
Background
3.
Mr Jackson-Lipkin, a Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong, wrote to the Secretary of State in a letter dated
13 December to report
Chinese concern "about the ban on
overseas recruiting for the Civil Service". This letter
reports a meeting between Agency and a number of Hong Kong judges. In his address to the judges, Mr Xu stressed
stressed the Chinese wish that foreign nationals should continue to work in Hong Kong for the stability and
prosperity of the territory, and that China would both
both allow
and encourage them to do so after 1997. The Secretary of State
has Commented that he i s not clear about the nature of the
recruiting for the Hong Kong civil
the Director of the New China News
alleged ban on
service.
overseas
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