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From the Secretary of State
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
HKK040/16
CIVED IN RE
22 MAY 1984
DESK OFFICIA
MEGISTRY
LAFB 24/510B315
Dar Bishon
London SWIA 2AH
May 1984
Thank you for your letter of 7 May enclosing a paper on the concerns of the Catholic community in-Hong Kong about the future of the territory.
I am most grateful to you for setting out the views of
We shall take the the important community which you lead. points in your paper fully into account. contribution to the continuing process of consultation which I described in my statement in Hong Kong on 20 April.
It is a valuable
You will understand that I cannot reveal the contents of the present negotiations with the Chinese Government about the future of Hong Kong, which both sides have agreed shall be confidential. But as I have made clear, we are working for a future in which Hong Kong would enjoy continuity in its social system and lifestyle and a high degree of autonomy and for an agreement which would make clear the nature of the
In that context it is possible to arrangements after 1997.
foresee a situation in which existing freedoms, including freedom of religion, would be maintained; present systems of social and educational organisations would continue; and the links of Hong Kong, and of organisations in Hong Kong, with the outside world could be retained on present lines.
Bishop John B Wu
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