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acceptable, and is outweighed by the immediate political difficulty of securing funds from LegCo for a garrison which no longer has any day-to-day
role on land in Hong Kong.
I see no reason to dissent from this judgement, and therefore recommend that the Secretary of State endorse the paper as a Joint Memorandum in the names of himself and the Defence Secretary. We are planning a meeting of OPD (K) on 1 July to discuss the talks on constitutional issues; but it may be that the Prime Minister will conclude that this paper
can be dealt with in correspondence.
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