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The Minister
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Tv. Norm's, HKD
FROM:
Grine. I think the surt
surty
of State (now frowelling)
wd. be content with
this.
J C Morris
18 OCT 1993
Hong Kong Department
158
DATE:
15 October 1993
agrees.
CC:
Sir J Coles
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HONG KONG; THE GARRISON
Problem
19 ÚCT 1993
1. A letter from the Secretary of State for Defence to the Prime Minister proposing to delay until early next year the decision on the timing of the withdrawal of the last Gurkha battalion in Hong Kong.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that we should not enter into this debate
unless the Chancellor comes back urging an earlier decision.
Background
3. OPD (K) members agreed by correspondence in June that the
withdrawal of the Hong Kong Garrison should be accelerated in order to ease the Governor's task in ensuring that LegCo agreed to pay Hong Kong's share of the cost. It was proposed that the British battalion should return to the UK in around
June 1994. The new proposal retained the original idea that the two Gurkha battalions would amalgamate in September 1994 and the final Gurkha battalion would be disbanded in September 1996 when the British battalion returned to Hong Kong. The Chancellor however pointed out that it ought to be cheaper for
sub.garrison.MORRIS
JEB
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