CONFIDENTIAL
Pa
Secretary of Stato
,10 MAR 1992
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FROM: N J Cox
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 10 March 1992
Mr Ricketts Mr Burns
PS/Lord Caithness
Private Secretary
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HONG KONG: HMOCS
cc: PS/PUS
Sir J Coles
Mr Davies, FED
Mr Muir
Miss Brooks,
Legal Advisers
Mr Kerby, ODA
Mr Fish, ODA
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Problem
1.
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Next steps, in the light of the Chief Secretary's letter
of 4 March.
Recommendations
2.
I recommend that, to conclude this phase of Ministerial correspondence, the Secretary of State should minute the
Chief Secretary:
(a) reserving our position on pensions (ie sterling
safeguards and SPOS), picking up some of the Chief Secretary's arguments and agreeing that officials need to explore all options before decisions are taken;
(b) confirming that Lord Caithness has therefore confined
his statement (so far only in the form of a confidential
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