D

GJ

E

(b)

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Police Training etc to meet their new

expanded role;

Maritime security;

(c)

(d)

general defence and security policy.

5.

In HKD's view (which MOD share) it would not be

reasonable (or appropriate) for the Committee to expect

you to say much on any of these topics before you have formally taken over as Governor and settled in. In

addition, the Committee will not yet be aware of any of

the details of the garrison withdrawal plan, the police expansion plan or (especially) our discussions with the

Chinese on these issues. The Committee's briefing before

their late 1986 visit covered:

(a)

(b)

(c)

a general political brief on Hong Kong (including

current security issues such as defence, illegal immigration and Vietnamese refugees (relevant extracts at Flag D).

a short note on the general outline of police

expansion to absorb the current garrison's I.S.

and border duties (copy at Flag E).

a more elaborate MOD brief on the garrison and its

future, indicating that no decisions have been

taken on the future size and shape of the garrison up to 1997, and recognising that these will be

dependent in part upon the progress of police

expansion plans: on the DCA, noting that HKG may be expected to take a harder line in the

renegotiations this year; and on a wide range of

miscellaneous issues such as defence sales, the

future of the Gurkhas, the future of local MOD

employees, personal allowance rates for garrison personnel in Hong Kong, and the future of the British Military Hospital. (I do not however

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