Mr Burns
PS/Lord Caithness
Private Secretary
CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL
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FROM: P F Ricketts
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Hong Kong Dept
DATE: 8 October 1991
cc: PS/PUS
Sir J Coles
Mr Bickham,
Special Advisers
SECRETARY OF STATE'S DINNER WITH THE GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG:
13 OCTOBER
1.
I recommend that the Secretary of State should use his dinner with the Governor on 13 October to concentrate on two
main issues:
The range of constitutional issues which will arise in
Hong Kong over the next few months: the management of the new LegCo; the LegCo/ExCo relationship; appointments to ExCo (the terms of all 11 current appointed members on ExCo expire by the end of the year); the number of
directly-elected seats on LegCo in 1995; and thinking ahead to the transition, and to the grooming of a first Chief Executive;
2.
Vietnamese Boat People.
I
SEAD will submit briefing separately on boat people. now submit a short paper intended to prepare the discussion of constitutional issues. I have deliberately kept this fairly staccato, and have pointed up questions to pursue with the Governor. I have not cleared the text of the paper
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