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6.
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The outcome is a complex package of texts:
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an
overarching MOU signed by the Fund/Bank and UK and
Chinese Governors (the UK with responsibility up to
1 July 1997, the Chinese thereafter);
a letter of invitation
from the Chinese Governor
(because the meetings will take place after
1 July 1997);
a letter of support from the UK Governor, transmitting
the HK authorities' financial and other assurances
the
provision
1 July 1997;
on
of the necessary services pre-
a letter from the Hong Kong authorities to you asking
you to transmit their assurances on provision of
services to the Fund;
the
an MOU between the HK authorities and the Fund/Bank on
detailed provision of services and the financial
obligations of the respective parties.
7.
still
We are still negotiating on the detail of these texts, which
raise some difficult issues in relation to Hong Kong's
autonomy.
But Hong Kong is still very eager to have the meetings
in 1997 and will in the end accept the texts. FCO Ministers are
content to proceed on this basis.