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DATE 31 October 1983

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FUTURE OF HONG KONG : BRIEFING OF CONSERVATIVE BACK-BENCHERS AND OF THE OPPOSITION

รา) 1. Please refer to your minute of 24 October to Mr Clift.

2. I now submit, for the Secretary of State's use with the Conservative Foreign Affairs Committee on 1 November:

(a) points to make;

(b) a draft check list of these points.

You told me that notes for supplementaries need not be submitted. These have however been prepared for use if required.

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3. The briefing is on similar lines to that provided by the Department when Mr Luce briefed a selected group of Conservative back-benchers on 20 October. But it is a little more general in its approach. It is also deliberately less precise in its description of the basis on which the negotiations with the Chinese on 19/20 October

were conducted.

4. The preparation of material for the briefing of Opposition leaders (para 3 of your minute) is in hand.

31 October 1983

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Coltum

CO Hum

Hong Kong Department

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