TNAG-1357-FCO40-1798-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1985 — Page 67

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CONFIDENTIAL

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435

CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG

TO HEDIATE FCO

TELNO 2898

OF 270745Z DECEMBER 85

INFO IMMEDIATE DEKING

434

YOUR TELNO 25: JI PENGFEITS VISIT TO HONG KONG

OUR PECORDS OF JI'S PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTO DO NOT PEPEAT NOT

SUGGEST THAT JI HAD SAID THAT THE OPITISH HAD NO RIGHT TO SET UP

DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS WHICH WOULD SURVIVE AFTER 1997. COPIES OF

ALL PUPLIC SPEECHES MADE BY JI IN HONG KONG ARE PEING DESPATCHED TO

YOU AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ONE GIVEN AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE ON

21 DECEMBER IS IN OUR TELNO 2877.

2. THE PASIS FOR SANAVIA'S ASSERTION APPEARS THEREFORE TO BE HIS OWN SPECULATIVE THOUGHTS ON WHAT JI MIGHT HAVE SAID IN PRIVATE, CONFINED WITH AN EXTREME INTERPRETATION OF HIS PUBLIC COMMENTS.

(BONAVIA HAS CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT THE UK HAS WASHED ITS HANDS

OF HONG KONG AND LOOKS FOR EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS NOTION).

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LIMITED

HKD

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

31 DEC 1985

REGISTRY

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Action Taken

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