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CONFIDENTIAL

DRAFT

rist Draft

REPORT

on the Work of the

Hong Kong Government Assessment Office

by

the Rt. Hon. Sir Patrick Nairne

and

Mr. Justice Simon Li

INTRODUCTION

1.

On 18th July 1984, in a Written Parliamentary

Answer, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth

Affairs announced the proposal to appoint a small

independent team to monitor the work of the special

office which it was planned to set up, under the authority

of the Governor of Hong Kong, to collate and assess

the views of the people of Hong Kong on whatever agreement

was reached with the Chinese Government on the future

of the territory. The terms of reference of the Monitoring

Team were placed in the Library of the House of Commons,

along with the terms of reference of the Assessment

Office and a more general note on the "Arrangements

for testing the acceptability in Hong Kong of an agreement

with the Chinese Government". Attached as Annex I

are the terms of reference of the Monitoring Team.

2.

We were appointed as the members of the