TNAG-1256-FCO40-1589-Third-countries-and-the-future-of-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 224

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WILL MEET THERE. HOWEVER ACCORDING TO JOURNALIST FOLLOWING TALKS,

GROUP EXPECTS TO MEET CHINESE MEMBERS OF NEGOTIATING TEAM BEFORE

THEIR DEPARTURE AND MOST LIKELY MR.JI PENGFEI .DEL INCLUDES LAWYERS,

DR,BUSINESSMEN AND JOURNALIST.GROUP LEADER IS MS ANNA WU WHO SPEAKS

BOTH CANTONESE AND MANDARIN. (INTERESTING NOTE IS THAT MOST IF

NOT/NOT ALL OF THEM BEAR FOREIGN PPTS).

3.GROUP LEADER SAID GROUP HAS ALREADY PREPARED POSITION PAPERS BUT

THESE WILL PE MADE PUBLIC AFTER THEIR RETURN FROM PEKIN AT END OF

WEEK.TOPICS INCLUDE FUTURE LAW,POLITICAL SYSTEM AND CONSTITUTION OF

HKONG.IN INTERVIEW WITH LOCAL RADIO,MS WU SAID THAT IT WOULD BE

USEFUL FOR THEM TO DISCUSS SUCH AREAS AS WHAT OUGHT TO BE MAINTAINED

IN HKONG IN FUTURE AND HOW TERRITORY AS A CITY IN INTNL COMMUNITY

SHOULD BE SEEN IN FUTURE.ON SELF ADMIN,MISS WU TOLD STATION THAT

HKONG OBSERVERS ACCEPTED CHINAS PLAN IN PRINCIPAL BUT WOULD LIKE TO

HAVE MORE INFO ABOUT PROPOSAL.

4. INTEREST OF PUBLIC ABOUT HKONG OBSERVERS IS THAT THEY ARE MORE

THAN JUST ANOTHER GROUP TO VISIT CHINA.IN FACT THEY WERE FIRST AND

MOST OUTSPOKEN AMONG PRESSURE GROUPS TO RAISE ISSUE OF 1997 AND

WERE ORGANIZERS OF OPINION POLL LAST YEAR WHICH GAVE MORE CREDENCE

TO CONTENTION THAT MAJORITY HKONG PEOPLE WOULD PREFER STATUS QUO

BUT AT SAME TIME WAS RESIGNED TO IDEA OF CHINA RECOVERING HKONG.WE

UNDERSTAND FROM RELIABLE SOURCES THAT GROUP WAS WELL RECD BY HKONG

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