TNAG-1241-FCO40-1554-Future-of-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 57

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DRAFT:

FROM:

minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

SECRETARY OF STATE

DEPARTMENT:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION]

TO:

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Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

R A Stallabrass Esq The Monday Club

122 Newgate Street LONDON EC1

TEL. NO:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1-4-

Reference

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CAVEAT..

.In Confidence

SUBJECT:

Thank you for your letter of 31 August enclosing a

copy of your Policy Paper on the Future of Hong Kong

prepared for the Monday Club's Foreign Affairs Policy

Committee.

I am grateful to you for bringing this to my notice.

an interesting If I may say so, the paper provides a helpful and

realistic appraisal of this complex and sensitive issue.

Given the agreed common aim of maintaining Hong Kong's

stability and prosperity, I am confident that our talks

with the Chinese Government on the future of Hong Kong

can be brought to a satisfactory conclusion. You will

know that the British Government's aim in these talks

is to seek a solution acceptable to Parliament, to

China and to the people of Hong Kong, whose views are

being taken fully into account. We are willing to conside

any proposals which would meet these criteria.

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