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GRS 200
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
CONFIDENTIAL
HRR 027/16.
VO MELGISTRY
12 DEC 1985
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 2801
OF 11103OZ DECEMBER 85
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
027/16
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MIPT: VISIT TO JI PENGFEI : TALKS : PRESS RELEASE
FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE AGREED WITH JK PENGFE'S DELEGATION FOLLOWING THIS MORNING'S TALKS ISSUED AT 1630
LOCAL TODAY:
STATE COUNCILLOR, JI PENGFE, AND THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, MET AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE THIS MORNING FOR MEAPLY TWO HOURS. THEY HAD A
DBR FGBY DISCUSSION, IN THE COUPSE OF WHICH THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINED THE PRESENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT IN HONG KONG TO MP JI PENGFEI. MR JI GAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE TIMETABLE AND PROCEDURES ENVISAGED FOR THE DRAFTING OF THE BASIC LAW. THEY TOOK NOTE WITH SATISFACTION OF THE PROGRESS MADE, AND OF THE SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION SHOWN, DURING THE INITIAL PERIOD OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION DURING THE YEAR SINCE SIGNATURE.
2. THEY EXCHANGED VIEWS ON THE PRESENT SITUATION IN HONG KONG AND AND FUTURE PROSPECTS, AND AGREED THAT SUCH EXCHANGES WERE USEFUL,
SHOULD CONTINUE.
3. THEY EXPRESSED THEIR CONFIDENCE IN AND DETERMINATION TO PROMOTE THE STABILITY AND PROSPERITY OF HONG KONG THROUGH THE FULL AND FAITHFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.
YOUDE
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*HONG KONG AGREEMENT
LIMITED HD/HKD HD/FED
HD/PLANNING STAFF HD/PUSD
DEP HD/PUSD
RES (MR WALKER)
P6
PS/MR RENTON
PS/PUS
BIR W HARDING
MR WILSON
BIR J FREELAND
MR J CROWLEY PUSD
PS/LADY YOUNG
COPIES TO: (VIA ADR)
MR ROBERTS NEWS DEPT MR FIFOOT LEGAL ADVS MR PEIRCE. ASST STAFF
CABINET OFFICE
MR MALLABY CABINET OFFICE MR DRC CHRISTOPHER
CABINET OFFICE
SIR P CRADDOCK NO 10 DOWNING ST. MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
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