THE PRIME MINISTER
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Dear Bor
As you know, we have been engaged in tough and detailed negotiations with the Chinese over the future of Hong Kong since my visit to Peking in 1982.
We have now agreed the text of a draft
agreement which will be initialled on 26 September. I am arranging for our High Commissioner to let you have a copy
of the Agreement.
Our aim has been to secure the best possible framework
within which Hong Kong's unique and highly developed social, legal and economic systems can be maintained and developed. The Agreement meets our essential requirements. It will be a binding international agreement; it describes with
sufficient detail and clarity the high degree of autonomy which Hong Kong will continue to enjoy after 1997 and the specific arrangements which will prevail there for 50 years thereafter; and it states that its terms will be stipulated in a Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, which will be passed by the National People's Congress, and will, in
effect, form the constitution of Hong Kong after 1997.
The Agreement is one which I shall commend strongly to the people of Hong Kong and to Parliament.
and to
THIS IS A COPY
THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR
40 YEARS UNDER FOI
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