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As I am sure you know, for, the past two years we have

been negotiating with the Chinese Government over the

Future of Hong Kong after the lease on the New Videos

territories, expires in 1997. It is now our hope, that an

agreement can be initialled and..published before the end

of September. HMG are then committed to testing then

acceptability of this draft agreement to the people of

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2. Isenclose a number: of documents which have been XE

tabled in Parliament and which describe the form that.

this test of acceptability will take. The first paper,

dated 18 July, gives general details of the exercise.

the second and third papers, dated 7 August, give the

terms of reference of the Assessment Office and the

Monitoring Team which will be established as part of the

machinery of the test of acceptability. It is in re

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