HKC 012/3
Mr Burns
Private Secretary
CONFIDENTIAL
FROM:
DATE:
CC:
PF Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
12 September 1991
PS/Lord Caithness
PS/PUS
Sir J Coles
Mr Davies, FED
Mr Wye, RAD
Miss Brooks,
Legal Advisers
HONG KONG: BASIC LAW: LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER FROM
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I submit a short draft reply from the Prime Minister to
letter of 5 September and a draft PS letter to
PS/No 10 explaining the background.
1.
A
2.
I have alerted the Private Secretary to the fact that No
10 have asked for this reply today 12 September.
drafted the letter from the Prime Minister to
to avoid raising any new point of policy.
We have
;
PF Ricketts
I am sorry for the delay, but this is a tiitelish isane. After considerable taught and discussion 2 believe that this is the nightt and of arpone. I know that Mo Will wanted to treep the amply brief.
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CONFIDENTIAL
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Redacted under FOI exemptions 27(1), 40(2) and 41. 12/4
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