TNAG-1344-FCO40-1774-Despatch-from-Sir-Richard-Evans--British-Ambassador-to-China-1986 — Page 19

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CONFIDENTIAL

SR 11 (Revised)

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minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

Redacted under FOI exemption 27(1)(a)(c)(d)

FROM:

SIR P CRADOCK

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

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DEPARTMENT:

TO:

SIR R EVANS

PEKING

SUBJECT:

FUTURE OF HONG KONG

TEL. NO:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

Your Reference

Copies to:

Sir E You de

Hong Kong

1. Thank you for your despatch on the future of Hong

Kong, summing up the agreement and the negotiations that

led up to it. We are printing the "despatch in the

Departmental Series and giving it a wide distribution in

Whitehall.

2. The despatch is a useful summary of the negotiations,

and fuller than the unclassified account in the White

Paper. It will be helpful for those who were not

immediately involved, particularly as the department's

history of the talks is unlikely to be ready for a while,

and in any case will be so detailed as probably not to be

useful for those without the closest interest.

3.

I agree generally with your outline of the shape of

the negotiations.

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