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Hong Kong Department
13 January 1989
PS/Lord Glenarthur
PS/PUS
Mr Gillmore
Mr McLaren o.r.
Mr Teasdale
Mr Holt, PRU
Private Secretary
Private
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE:
POSSIBLE ENQUIRY INTO HONG KONG
A 1.
Please refer to Mr Gillmore's minute of 11 January.
2.
Mr Gillmore recorded that the Foreign Affairs Committee have
asked for a very short factual paper setting out the "division of
responsibilities" between HMG and the Chinese Government in
connection with the future of Hong Kong. I submit a draft, which
has been cleared with the Legal Advisers.
3.
The note is entirely factual and keeps very closely to the
text of the relevant instruments.
4.
Only paragraph 8 needs comment. This tends to cut across a
neat "division of responsibilities" by indicating that the British
Government does have a certain indirect standing in relation to the
drafting of the Basic Law. It is possible that the Committee could
use it as a pretext for extending their enquiries to include the
substance of the Basic Law and details of the drafting process.
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