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YOUR TELNOS 1087 AND 1144: ANNUAL REPORT ON HONG KONG 1990
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1 THANK YOU FOR TURS. WE DID TAKE ACCOUNT OF YOUR FACTUAL AMENDMENTS TO THE FOREWORD ON THE MASTER VERSION AND APOLOGISE FOR THEIR OMISSION FROM THE COPY FAXED TO YOU YESTERDAY. WE ARE SENDING YOU ANOTHER, CORRECTED, COPY TODAY.
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I AM AFRAID WE HAVE A FEW FINAL AMENDMENTS TO THE MAIN BODY OF THE REPORT. IT HAS BEEN DECIDED, IN THE INTERESTS OF GREATER CLARITY, NOT TO ATTEMPT TO COVER THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR AFTER ALL. WE HAVE, THEREFORE, MADE CHANGES TO THE MAIN
TEXT AS FOLLOWS:
PARA 2 FROM THE THIRD SENTENCE ONWARDS THIS SHOULD NOW READ
'THERE HAVE BEEN VISITS BY THE FOLLOWING MINISTERS: BY MR MICHAEL HOWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT, IN SEPTEMBER SEMICLN BY MR FRANCIS MAUDE, MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS IN APRIL AND JULY, AND BY HIS SUCCESSOR, LORD CAITHNESS, IN SEPTEMBER. THERE WERE ALSO VISITS BY MR TIM SAINSBURY, MINISTER FOR TRADE, AND MR DAVID MELLOR, MINISTER FOR THE ARTS, IN SEPTEMBER SEMICLN AND BY MR JOHN MAPLES, ECONOMIC SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY, IN NOVEMBER.''
PARA 5 FIRST TWO SENTENCES TO READ: ''PLENARY MEETINGS OF THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP WERE HELD IN MARCH IN PEKING, IN SEPTEMBER IN LONDON AND IN DECEMBER IN HONG KONG. THERE WAS A SLOW RETURN TO BUSINESS FOLLOWING THE DISRUPTION IN THE GROUP'S WORK IN 1989.''
PARA 11 OMIT 'THE GOVERNOR VISITED PEKING IN JANUARY 19911 AND THE LAST SENTENCE OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
PARA 12 OMIT PENULTIMATE SENTENCE. LAST SENTENCE TO READ: ''THERE ARE PLANS FOR A SERIES OF VISITS TO CHINA BY VARIOUS GROUPS OF HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO FAMILIARISE THEM
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