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Action Taken:
KAM Saunders
Hong Kong Department
8 April 1993
CC:
Mr Hum
Mr Ricketts
Ricket PS/Mr Goodląd
An 1314.
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APS/MRGOODLAD 13/4
VISIT TO LONDON BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEOPLE'S
LIVELIHOOD (ADPL) (22-27 APRIL)
Problem
•
A three-member ADPL delegation led by the Legislative
Councillor, Mr Frederick Fung, plans to come to London later
this month. They have asked to see the Prime Minister, the
Secretary of State and Mr Goodlad. How to respond?
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that Mr Goodlad should agree to meet the
delegation. We understand the Secretary of State will be abroad 23-27 April. A call on the Prime Minister is not necessary.
Background and Argument
3. The ADPL is one of the small liberal groups, which has good
links at local and grassroots level, and which generally
supports the Governor's proposals for democratic development.
Its Chairman, Mr Frederick Fung, is a directly-elected member of LegCo. Mr Goodlad wrote to him earlier this month in response
to a letter addressed to the Secretary of State, in which Mr
Fung asked that the views of Hong Kong people should be fully
taken into account in any negotiations between Britain and
China. There was a subsequent slight flurry about what was