TNAG-1234-FCO40-1547-Future-of-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 26

1.722 0.1-function Appt

By facial Belshme by 23/12

From Robert Adley MP

88

HOUSE OF COMMONS

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Also entered on FEC026/2.

13th December 1982

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BK OFFIC.

I have just been re-elected as Chairman of the British/Chinese Parliamentary Group and I am instructed by the Group to write to you. We are particularly concerned that the Hong Kong situation is becoming a dangerous deterrent to the maintenance of good relations between Britain and China.

Earlier this year the first ever official IPU delegation to the People's Republic took place from the British Parliament, and there, is a general wish that further visits should take place. The purpose of this letter, therefore, is to see whether the Foreign Office is in a position financially to facilitate a further visit by an All-Party Group of Members of Parliament to the People's Republic.

The Right Honourable Francis Pym, MP,

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

King Charles Street,

London,

S.W.1.