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5 DESK BY 23010OZ MAR 84
6 FM FCO 22123OZ MAR 84
7 TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
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9 INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
10 Your Tel No 771: FUTURE OF HONG KONG:
11 SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS' DEBATE:
In order to reply to questions from the press News Department
13 will be drawing on the standard list of Notes for Supplementaries
14 already available to you. (Our Tel No 483 refers.)
MIFT
15 contains a supplementary list which deals with the Secretary of
16 State's visit to Peking and Hong Kong, with the LEGCO debate,
17 and with the desire of Hong Kong people to have more information
18 about the talks (your Tel No 759, para 2 (c) refers). Some of
19 the points in your TUR are already covered by that material.
We have the following additional comments: -
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para 4 of the speech. You should know (Telecon Clift/
Governor refers) that the revised version of the paragraph
reads as follows:
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We must and do bear in mind the realities of the situation
and the unique historical and geographical circumstances
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