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HOWE MEETS MARTIN LEE

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1988

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HOWE, AND

THE FOLLOWING WAS ISSUED BY THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE AFTER

SIR GEOFFREY SECRETARY, MEETING

FOREIGN BETWEEN THE MR MARTIN LEE ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON (LONDON TIME):

SHOWED

THE

CASE OF HIS

FAVOUR OF IN PRESENTATION MR LEE MADE A

IN 1988. THE SECRETARY OF STATE INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ELECTIONS

PROMISES AND BAD FAITH IN REJECTED THE ALLEGATIONS OF BROKEN

THAT THE DOCUMENTS DISTRIBUTED BY MR LEE. THE RECORD CLEARLY BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAD NEVER ENTERED INTO A COMMITMENT TO INTRODUCE PAPER OF DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988. THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WHITE OF DIRECTION QUESTION

ELECTIONS 1984 (PARAGRAPH 25) CONSIDERED THE

THE REVIEW

IN 1987 SITUATION AND GAVE

UNDERTAKING TO AN

AND A FURTHER HAND

WHITE (PARAGRAPH 48(H)). THIS REVIEW IS NOW IN

THE GOVERNMENT, BY THE HONG KONG PAPER WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED

THE EVIDENCE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID HE RESPECTED MR LEE'S VIEWS BUT

MR

THAT LEE'S CLAIM

THEY WERE OVERWHELMINGLY DID NOT SUPPORT SUPPORTED IN HONG KONG. THE BRITISH AND HONG KONG

PROGRESSIVE EVOLUTION

TO

FIRMLY COMMITTED GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG.

THE

HE GAVE MR LEE THE

OPPORTUNITY

TO PRODUCE

GOVERNMENTS REMAIN OF REPRESENTATIVĖ

EVIDENCE "PROMISES" WHICH HE ALLEGED WERE BROKEN. MR LEE DID NOT DO SO.

MR LER HAD EARLIER PAID A SHORT CALL ON LORD GLENARTHUR.

OF TRE

TALKS ON NEW DEFENCE COSTS AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT WILL TALKS ARE EXPECTED

A FOURTH ROUND OF TALKS ON A NEW DEFENCE COSTS BE HELD IN HONG KONG ON FRIDAY (JANUARY 22). THE TO LAST FOR A FEW DAYS.

THE LED BY

FINANCIAL SECRETARY, MR BRIAN AT THE

THE HONG KONG TEAM WILL BE MR PIERS JACOBS, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT TEAM COUSINS, ASSISTANT UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE (GENERAL FINANCE) MINISTRY OF DEFENCE.

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