In the
event the Foreign Secretary had not visited Hong
Kong and now had too much on his plate to focus
In
on the subject until H.E.'s visit in July.
the meantime Mr. Cortazzi saw advantage in putting
an agreed paper to S of S taking full account
of the Hong Kong point of view.
H.E. said
that the paper should bring out the very large overlap of interest and identity of view between
'Hong Kong and U.K.
6.
It was agreed that CS would go to
London with a senior official on the finance
side to work on the draft in the FCO in the week
beginning 7 June.
7.
Mr. Cortazzi said that Lord Gor onwy-
Roberts had asked him to say that the planning
paper represented the minimum that he could get
away with in terms of social progress.
Lord
Goronwy Roberts had also been dissatisfied with the budget which had not been consistent with H.E.'s
letter to him. H.E. replied that the budget
gave effect to all the plans he had outlined in
his personal letter to Lord Goronwy-Roberts
before the budget had been announced.
8.
Mr. Cortazzi said that the FCO
had not been able to trace the withdrawal of the requirement for inspection of accounts laid down
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