SECRET
DEDIP
IMMEDIATE
ZCZC
SECRET
DEDIP
FM FCO
TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELNO
OF 021609Z DEC 92
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
STRICTLY PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR FROM HUM, AUSS
PEKING STRICTLY PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR
UKREP JLG STRICTLY PERSONAL FOR MR GALSWORTHY
YOUR TELNO 2805 : CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1.
Ministers have agreed that you should authorise Mr C H Tung
to convey the message set out in para 15 of your TUR to the
Chinese side during his visit to Peking.
2. We think that it would be worth adding one further element
to this message. You will have seen some reports that the Chinese side may be intending to establish a preparatory body or
"vetting committee" before February 1993. We therefore think it
would be worth including in your message the thought that you
very much hope that the Chinese side will not take any steps to
set up any new bodies which would give institutional form to the
"HEREBY present differences between the two sides, and preempt the
emergence of alternative proposals in LegCo.
HURD
CONS.DEV
HONG KONG
PF RICKETTS
270 2647
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