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PS/Mr Maude
HKB 011 13
CONFIDENTIAL
FROM:
A R Paul
DATE:
Pile 503
Hong Kong Department
11 December 1989
CC:
Mr Gillmore
Mr McLaren
Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers Mr Edwards, Legal Advisers
Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Griffiths, Finance Dept
Miss Marsden, HKD
Mr Haswell, HKD
Miss Harper, SEAD
Miss Bailey, PRU
Mr Lidington
Mr Fraser
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: EVIDENCE SESSION ON HONG KONG AND
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE: 13 DECEMBER 1989
1. The Clerk to the Committee has briefed me today on the questions
the Committee are likely to ask Mr Maude on 13 December. I have set
these out in the attached note.
2. The Clerk gave me the following personal glosses:
(a) The Committee consider our reply to their Report to be a very interim one But they do understand that under present
circumstances it would be difficult for us to elaborate.
(b) On representative government, the Committee accept that the recommendations in their own report were ambitious and would be prepared to settle for the OMELCO consensus. But they would have
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