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We need to follow up with advice on para 5. One that to done "I think that the S&S should write to the Goons.
FROM:
KAM Saunders
DATE:
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Hong Kong Department
24 April 1991
PS/Lord Caithness
Sir J Coles
Mr Burns
Mr Davies, FED
Mr Crystal, News D
Special Advisers
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Mr Paul
Private Secretary
CALL ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE BY MRS TERESA GORMAN MP
1. Mrs Gorman called on the Secretary of State at 10.00 am on 23 April. The meeting lasted approximately half an
hour.
2. Mrs Gorman said she knows Hong Kong quite well and has
in the past done business there. She was concerned about
the future, and wanted to make two main points. Her first
concern was the LegCo elections: she did not feel that Britain was doing enough to help the embryo political parties of Hong Kong with the technical and organisational
aspects of holding successful elections. Financial
resources were also a problem, and many of the people involved were politically naive. We should be inviting them
over here to learn about election techniques or, better still, sending suitable advisers out to Hong Kong.
Mrs Gorman quoted the example of the Americans, who had paid
for people, including some British MPs, to go to Latin America to help advise the new democratic parties there.
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