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HFB 011/3
FROM:
A R Paul
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29 JUL 1988
DATE:
CC:
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INL
Private Secretary
MP'S LETTER: HONG KONG: BASIC LAW
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A 1.
Hong Kong Department
27. July 1988
PTold Gletarthur
Mr McLaren
Mr Fifgot,
Legal Advisers
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A letter from the Rt Hon David Howell MP.
see
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Recommendation
I recommend that the Secretary of State writes along the lines
of the attached draft. Mr Fifoot agrees.
2.
Background
3.
The draft is on standard lines. It describes the action we
have been taking with the Chinese over the draft of the Basic Law
as positively and explicitly as possible, within the inevitable
constraints of confidentiality.
A.R.Pan
A R Paul
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