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RESTA TED
DD 7083OZ FCOLN
FM HOKON TO FCOLN
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RESTRICTED
STAFF IN CONFIDENCE
FM HONG KONG
TO DESKBY 110830Z FCO
TELNO 723
OF 10220OZ MAY 93
INFO DESKBY 11083OZ PEKING
MR RICKETTS,ME
INFO DESKBY 11120OZ UKMIS NEW YORK
INFO IMMEDIATE UKREP JLG HONG KONG, BTC HONG KONG
K STUMP
FCO PERSONAL FOR HUM, AUSS, RICKETTS, HKD, MAKEPEACE, PMD, AND STUMP, PSD
PEKING PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR
UKMIS NEW YORK PERSONAL FOR PEIRCE
MIPT: CHANGE OF POLITICAL ADVISER
1. TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE TO BE ISSUED AT 5.00 PM HONG KONG TIME ON 12 MAY:
BEGINS:
MR ROBERT PEIRCE HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE OVER THE POST OF POLITICAL ADVISER IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT THIS SUMMER FROM MR WILLIAM EHRMAN, WHO WILL BE RETURNING TO THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TO TAKE UP ANOTHER POST.
MR EHRMAN WILL LEAVE HONG KONG IN JULY AND MR PEIRCE WILL ARRIVE IN MID-AUGUST.
MR PEIRCE (AGED 38) IS AT PRESENT FIRST SECRETARY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK. HE STUDIED CHINESE (PUTONGHUA) IN HONG KONG IN THE LATE 1970S, SERVED AS SECOND AND LATER FIRST SECRETARY IN PEKING FROM 1980 TO 1983, AS DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT FROM 1986 TO 1988, AND AS ASSISTANT PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY FROM 1988 UNTIL HE TOOK UP HIS PRESENT POST IN 1990. HE IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN. A FULL C.V. IS ATTACHED.
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