TNAG-1040-FCO40-1290-Future-of-Hong-Kong-1981 — Page 82

DSR 11 (Revised)

DRAFT:

SECRET

SUBMISSION

NHW¤Ã¤ккÆlelestørxdespatchÁXX

FROM:

RD CLIFT

DEPARTMENT:

HKGD

TEL. NO:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Secret

MR DONALD

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

CAVEAT....

..In Confidence

SUBJECT:

FUTURE OF HONG KONG

Problem

Your Reference

Copies to:

Mr Elliott, FED

Mr Rushford, Legal

Advisers

1. To agree a range of contingency plans for the

immediate and long-term future and short-term tactics

leading up to the proposed visit to China and Hong Kong

by the Prime Minister in 1982.

Recommendation

Enclosures-flag(s).

2.

I recommend that:

a) Ministers should endorse the attached draft

contingency paper;

b) the Secretary of State should write to the

Prime Minister as in the attached draft;

c) the paper should then be submitted to OD under

a covering paper (draft attached).

Background

3.

The Lease of the New Territories ends in 1997. The

shadow of this date will soon being to affect investment

confidence in Hong Kong.

ite

Unless, future prospects are is

satisfactorily clarified, this will happen by 1985 at the

latest, perhaps sooner.

SECRET

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