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Sir David Wilson KCMG
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2 MAY 1990
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Dear Davido
NEGOTIATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG : AN ACCOUNT FROM THE HONG KONG END
1.
We discussed your letter of 12 February during your visit earlier this month. For the sake of completeness, I should record what I said about our consultations with the experts here: namely, that no one in London sees any objection to your proposal to commission an account of the 1982-84 negotiations from a Hong Kong viewpoint. I am sure that Bim Davies would
do it admirably.
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There is one slightly tedious point. As I explained, Bim Davies no longer has security clearance to see classified papers, having been retired for some years. He needs to be negatively vetted before being allowed access to papers about the negotiations, even though he has seen them all before and wrote some of them himself. The same would apply to a retired DS officer asked to take on a task of this kind.
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Clinton Leeks took a copy of the form which Bim will have to complete. I am told that the procedure should not take too long - though I suppose it might be delayed a little by Bim's residence in Minorca.
Yous ever,
Rozmi
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