TNAG-1142-FCO40-1422-Hong-Kong-and-the-Falkland-Islands-crisis-1982 — Page 46

本署檔號 OUR REF.:

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* YOUR REF.:

Mr. Patrick Williamson,

Hong Kong and General Department F.C.O

London

Dear No Williamson

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Security Branch

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

21st May 1982

HKCK 02012

MIGNOU IN AECHSYAT DO.

2 - JUN 1982

RAINSTAY

INDE

No

3/6

منا

£60 3/6

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Hong Kong Sailors în the Falklands Area

Please find enclosed a letter dated 6th May to the Prime Minister from a group of Hong Kong residents with relations serving in Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships now operating in the area of the Falklands (Annex A). A covering note to Sir Murray MacLehose, asking him to pass the letter to the PM on his return to England, has been acknowledged (Annex B).

I discussed the letter with Mr. Peter Webb, the Assistant Political Adviser, and we decided that the best way to handle it would be for

a draft to be prepared in Hong Kong and then sent to FCO, so that you could finalise a formal reply from England.

The Captain-in-Charge, Hong Kong, has prepared a draft which I endorse (Annex C).

I should be very grateful if you would now take the matter on.

copied to

MAO Plis

2/6

You suncerely,

Sumon Lout

(S. L.

Lord)

for Secretary for Security

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