CJLAOS
CONFIDENTIAL
Parliamentary Relations Unit
FROM:
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
DATE:
17 February 1987
PQ BY MR ROGER SIMS: 18 FEBRUARY
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1.
I attach revised notes for supplementaries, taking
into account the points which I understand were made at
this morning's meeting of Ministers. The supplementaries
have
been somewhat
somewhat abbreviated and a statistical sheet on
Vietnamese refugees has been added.
2.
is
I understand that at this morning's meeting
references were made to recent unhelpful Chinese statements
about the 1987 review. The principal statements on these
lines were made by Lu Ping (Hong Kong Telno 510 refers).
There
already a supplementary to deal with the
assertion, which was picked up in the British press, that if political reforms did not converge with the Basic Law it
would be necessary to overturn them. A report in today's Times quotes Lu Ping as saying that "There could be no
I believe this report is
direct election before 1991".
inaccurate: the Hong Kong telegram seems to make it clear
that Lu refused to be drawn into any such categorical
added а supplementary on this point
which simply states that to the best of our knowledge no
statement on the lines of the Times' report was made.
statement.
I have
17 February 1987
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CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
CONFIDENTIAL