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FROM: Mr Galsworthy
DATE: 5 September 1984
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FUTURE OF HONG KONG : CALL BY SIR PATRICK NAIRNE ON THE SECRETARY OF
STATE, 6 SEPTEMBER
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1. The Secretary of State has agreed to see Sir Patrick Nairne on 6
September 12.15pm. I submit some points to make.
2. Hong Kong have now sent us an outline of procedure for the
Assessment Office and their action plan for the handling of the
White Paper. These will be shown to Sir Patrick Nairne shortly
before his call on the Secretary of State. The Department will have
had some preliminary discussion with him about them and we will
telegraph to Hong Kong any comments that he may have.
3. The outline of procedure of the Assessment Office does not seek
to define the work of the monitors in relation to the Office. This
is right since any attempt by the Hong Kong Government to define
what the monitors should do and how they should do it would
undermine their role. Otherwise the outline of procedure seems
generally satisfactory. Clearly it will be important to see that
adequate publicity is given to the procedures.
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on 27 August.
Sir Patrick Nairne wrote to me
He raised the
point that Ministers and Parliament would be as much concerned about
the proper and effective carrying out of the consultation process as
a whole (ie the scope, organisation and implementation of the
consultation), as about the work of the Assessment Office itself.
D However the terms of reference of the Monitors confine them to
overseeing the work of the Assessment Office and reporting on whether it has discharged its functions properly.
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