TNAG-1434-FCO40-1917-Hong-Kong-leading-personality-Sir-Yue-Kong-Pao--businessman-1986 — Page 181

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HKK OIO/2 RECEIVED IN PEGISTRY 1 7 APR 1986

TO IMMEDIATE PEKING

TELNO 304

OF 161634Z APRIL 86

DESK OFFICER INDEX

-EGISTAY

PA

kalan TakOT

ABIT

FOLLOWING TELEGRAM NOW REPEATED TO YOU AT REQUEST OF HKD

WAS SENT TO HONG KONG TELEGRAM NUMBER 657 OF 13 APRIL

FOR GOVERNOR FROM HKD

YOUR TELNO 1043: SIR Y K PAO

1.

WE APOLOGISE FOR NOT MAKING THE DEADLINE IN TUR. WE HOPE

THAT THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY MAY PROVE HELPFUL SHOULD YOU WISH TO

CONTACT SIR Y K BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR PEKING.

2.

SIR Y K PAO HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH SEVERAL MINISTERS DURING

HIS RECENT UK VISIT. HE SPENT THE WEEKEND OF 15-16 MARCH WITH

THE SECRETARY OF STATE AT CHEVENING. HE SAW THE SECRETARY OF

STATE AGAIN ON 19 MARCH, AND MET MR LUCE ON 18 MARCH, MR RIDLEY

AND LORD YOUNG ON 19 MARCH, MR RENTON AND MR RAISON ON 20 MARCH,

THE PRIME MINISTER ON 21 MARCH AND MR HURD ON 24 MARCH. HE ALSO

MET WILSON AND SIR P CRADOCK.

3.

THE MAIN SUBJECTS OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS OF WHICH WE HAVE

RECEIVED REPORTS WERE AS FOLLOWS:

(A)

(1)

WITH SECRETARY OF STATE:

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: THE SECRETARY OF STATE

REITERATED OUR INTENTION TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY AND

PRUDENTLY, TO SEE WHAT CAME OUT OF THE 1987 REVIEW, AND

TO ENSURE THAT THE REVIEW WAS A SERIOUS ONE. WE HAD

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