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3.
Did the Chinese side agree to the clease of this
material?
10.
Yes.
Why did you say "there are no understandings which
the British side have breached" rather than "there
are no secret understandings, no secret agreements",
which is what the Governor said to the BSC on 26
October?
11.
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What the Governor said was absolutely right.
There were no secret agreements. But there was
certainly an understanding a very public one that the British side would continue to press
for more directly elected seats for 1995. this is clearly spelt out in the exchanges.
Did ExCo see all these messages?
EXCO whe fully consulted throughout these
exchanges and saw the text of all the
correspondence between the two Foreign
Ministers.
And
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Did they see the other papers in the batch you have just released?
Not clear from the Exco minutes whether they CEV
the detailed texts of all these other papers; but they were kept fully in the picture.
throughout.
FIOP"