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CONFIDENTIAL

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· 7 JAN 1985

FROM:

CO HUM, HKD

DATE: 3 January 1985

Private Secretary

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Dr Wilson

Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers

Mr Elliott, FED

HONG KONG: COMPATIBILITY OF MEMBERSHIP OF DISTRICT BOARDS AND

REGIONAL COUNCILS WITH MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S POLITICAL

CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE

Problem

1.

Hong Kong's proposal that the Executive Council should be asked to agree that membership of the Chinese People's Political

Consultative Conference (CPPCC) should not

should not be considered

incompatible with membership of District Boards, Regional Councils

or the Legislative Council.

Recommendation

(334

D

335

2.

I recommend

that the Secretary of State now approve the

proposal. A draft telegram is attached.

Background and Argument

was

You

A, B 3. The Governor's proposal is described in Hong Kong telnos 19 and

20. He originally put it forward in October 1984, and it

discussed in Mr Galsworthy's submission of 30 October.

commented on 1 November that the Secretary of State was not

persuaded that

that it was necessary to resolve the point with EXCO

before signature of the agreement. In the light of that, and

subsequent discussion with you, the Governor was asked to consider postponing action until the New Year (FCO telno 2175).

E

(341)

4.

On the substance of the issue the Governor's proposal is

My feeling is that the fundamentally unchanged.

likelihood of

an

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