TNAG-1331-FCO40-1758-Future-of-Hong-Kong-test-of-the-acceptability-of-the-Joint-D-1984 — Page 162

監察團辦

香港金鐘道三十八號

最高法院

Our Ref.: MT/2/01 C

DUNI HO

A.C. Galsworthy, Esq.,

Head, Hong Kong Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

London SW1A 2AH,

UNITED KINGDOM.

(Dear Tony,)

OFFICE OF THE MONITORING TEAM

THE SUPREME COURT

38 QUEENSWAY HONG KONG

29 October 1984

I do not think that it is too early for me to seek your advice and guidance on the arrangements which Ministers and the Hong Kong Department will wish to make at the conclusion of the Monitoring Team's assignment.

Drawing upon what Ian Macpherson has told us about the submission of the Assessment Office report to the Governor, Simon Li and I are at present assuming that the Commissioner's report will be required to reach the Governor by Saturday, 24 November, and that our own report on which we shall be working in parallel with the completion of the Commissioner's report will have to be finalised and signed not later than Monday, 26 November. We envisage that it may then be convenient for both the Assessment Office report and the Monitoring Team report to be despatched together to yourself in London, perhaps by special courier on, say, Tuesday, 27 November. Does that provisional programme fit in with FCO thinking ?

If it does, what date do you have in mind for my own return ? If the Secretary of State plans to publish both reports on, or by, Friday, 30 November (with a view to the Debate in the House of Commons in the following week), will you wish to see me in London not later than Thursday, 29 November ? That suggested date assumes that Ministers may see advantage in having me on the spot immediately before publication of the reports in case there are matters of clarification on which I may be able to help. What do you think ?

If you are disposed to endorse my present thoughts, that would mean that the two Monitors would be divided

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