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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
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Ms. Kay Saunders
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth office
Dear Kay.
28 December 1993
03 MAR
White Paper
During Stanley Ying's absence
temporarily looking after the White Paper.
from leave, I am
There have been a few exchanges on the appropriate wording for the "no unilateral legislation" point, resting with Peter Ricketts' letter of 22 December to Martin Dinham. To be doubly sure before we amend our master copy of the White Paper, it would be most helpful if you would confirm that the whole of the new paragraph 43 as suggested Peter Lai's letter of 15 December should now be deleted, to be replaced by the following:
in
"43
In
reassertion,
addition,
in the context of the discussion of a
the Chinese side's
We should not
first-stage agreement, that
legislate unilaterally on any matter not agreed
with the Chinese side, remained an obstacle."
Jums scriendly учто
(Joseph Y.T. Lai)
for Secretary for constitutional Affairs
c.c. Mr. Martin Dinham, GĦ
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