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SIR Y K PAO'S CHEVENING WEEKEND 15-16 MARCH 1986

IX. JOINT LIAISON GROUP

Background

1.

a

First meeting of Joint Liaison Group (JLG) took place in

London July 1985; second meeting in

second meeting in Peking November 1985 and third

to First meeting got off meeting in Hong Kong 11-14 March 1986. good start with agreement reached on working methods and Hong Kong's continued participation in the Asian Development Bank.

2.

by Chinese

to

Second meeting uncomfortable and dominated

concerns about development of representative goverment in Hong

Kong. We succeeded somewhat in reassuring them that we had no

preconceived ideas about the 1987 review and that

aim was our

ensure that development in representative government before 1997 and the Basic Law to be drafted by the Chinese would converge. Also at

second meeting agreement reached in principle on the wording of an endorsement for BN(O) passports concerning holders' right of abode

in Hong Kong.

Endorsement will be of help in securing wide

international recognition of BN (O) passport.

3.

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