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HONG KONG: LONG TERM STUDY
Draft paper by the Secretary of State for
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Since the circulation of my paper K(69)1
my Department have given further consideration to
the problems raised in it. The Committee will
recall that the paper was drafted on the basis
that we could not rely on remaining in Hong Kong
on present terms until the lease of the New
Territories lapsed in 1997 and should therefore
consider what adaptations of its status might be
possible and desirable after conclusion of the
present conflict in Vietnam. The conclusions of
that paper were extremely gloomy.
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12. Without seeking to reopen the terms of that
paper I feel that the Committee mat also to
consider certain other possibilities which cannot
be totally discounted and it is my hope that this
short paper will help the Committee to focus on
those points on which Ministerial guidance for the
future is required.
B. The first paper K(69)1 sets out advantages
and disadvantages from the Chinese Government's
point of view of action by them to bring about an
early return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty
n the assumption that little change in the
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