CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
Dr D C Wilson
Political Adviser
Government Secretariat HONG KONG
Telephone 01- 233 3184
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Dear David,
BORDER DELINEATION
Your reference
Our reference
Date
CR 12/1476/80
HKK 040/3
22 April 1981
NKK 040/3
RELIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51
2
Wrong dale.
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23.4.
REGISTRY
Action Taken
1. Thank you for your letter of 24 March about the Shenzhen River border.
2. It is, as you say, the general rule that where a border follows the course of a river it shifts when the river shifts. But the Chinese evidently do not recognise this, and it is not for us to court bother over three-ha'pennyworth of wasteland. We, and our departmental legal adviser, therefore fully agree with the course of action detailed in your paragraph 7.
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R D Clift
Hong Kong and General Department
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