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Your para 6: Sir John Coles spoke to the Australian High Commissioner here on 12 November to emphasise the importance we attached to the Australian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister using the opportunities presented by the Seattle meeting to raise Hong Kong with their Chinese counterparts. (We now understand that the Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen is likely to be in Seattle in addition to President Jiang Zemin semi colon so Senator Evans may indeed be able to speak to his Chinese counterpart).
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