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3. TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
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IMMEDIATE
9 FOLLOWING FOR GOVERNOR FROM PRIVATE SECRETARY
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11 1.
The Secretary of State has asked me to pass to you the
12 following message.
13 Begins:
14 I very much appreciated the message of welcome which you passed
15. to me on behalf of Members of the Executive Council and yourself.
16 These are difficult and testing times for Hong Kong: I hope to
an opportunity to pay an early visit to the territory to
12 meet as many people as possible and to assess the situation for
19 myself. Hong Kong will be a very important priority for me, as
20 it was for my predecessor. I shall be approaching the subject
21 with the same sense of personal commitment as he did.
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