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China. This policy would continue.
However many of the
leading lights in these overseas organisations were legally
minded, and HKG in dealing with them had to operate strictly
within the law. Ke looked much relieved on hearing this.
JLG
This conversation led onto what both sides should
aim to achieve at the next JLG meeting. The CS impressed
upon Ke that it would be important, particularly
that visible progress were
rebuilding
local confidence,
to
made at the next JLG meeting. Ke said that he shared that
view, but added that much would depend on
what was going
to happen in the local political scenes and on whether
there would be further unpleasant exchanges at the higher
level in the weeks ahead.
TAMAR
The CS explained our position on TAMAR along
the lines of FCO telno 2121, putting emphasis on the
economic considerations which
prevented further delay.
The CS assured Ke that HKG had no wish to raise the profile
of this matter, and Ke would appreciate how difficult it
was to avoid answering a direct press question on facts.
Ke said that he had told Mr.
McLaren at the last JLG
meeting that we should try not to make any announcement
the reclamation at TAMAR, but if we did we had to do
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