Chapter 3
Visit to the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(22 August 1991)
Present at the briefing were:
Zhao Jihua (1)
Hu Chuanzhong (胡傳中)
Director
Counsellor,
Chinese Representative,
Sino-British JLG
(A Mr Huang was also present, but his full name and title
were unknown.)
Summary of Briefing
(Zhao Jihua said that
Nations Office in New
post.
The briefing
he previously worked in the United
York and was new to his present
was generally uninformative and Zhao
spent most of the Q & A time in asking questions about the
job nature of individual delegates.)
2.
The НКМАО, MFA was set up after the ratification
of the Joint Declaration in 1985. Previously, it was a
unit under the Western European Department (in relation to
Britain) under the MFA. After 1985, the HKMAO was given
separate status to be responsible for matters relating to
the implementation of the Joint Declaration.