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Mrs Priest, HKD

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1. Thank you for sending me a copy of your draft brief. I have only one comment, relating to para 6 of the draft Points to Make. Here I think it would be less dramatic to use a positive rather than a negative formulation, perhaps on the following lines:

'willing to discuss any solution that is acceptable to people of Hong Kong and to Parliament'.

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