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The Minister has seen.
I have awarded the final paragraph to take accant of a subsequent telephone call from No lichts. The record of the press conference does not bear out easier
indications that her Ping referred specifically to
'Shadow institutias.
Mr
Ham PS/MrGoodlad
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FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 23 October 1992
cc: PS/PUS
6.J. Duray
CM 20
minister
Private Secretary
23/10
Sir J Coles
Mr Davies, FED
Mr Wye, RAD
Mr Everett, News Dept
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HONG KONG: GOVERNOR'S VISIT
The Private Secretary has asked for a quick summary and
assessment of the Governor's talks, to reach No 10 by
1.
1300.
2.
I submit a draft letter drawing on this morning's
telegrams. The Governor will be sending his considered
thoughts on the way ahead after his return to Hong Kong. I
understand that since he left Hong Kong Lu Ping has given a very stark and unhelpful press conference in which he has made clear that if the Governor persists with his proposals on
constitutional development, China will set up shadow
institutions to cover LegCo, ExCo and the Judiciary and that
these are the bodies that would take over in 1997. Lu Ping
has apparently also commented unhelpfully on the airport and
has repeated in some form the threat made during the talks to
publish the Ministerial exchanges of 1990 relating to the composition of the Election Committee. A telegram is on its
way from Peking.
gov.vis.PET
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