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CONFIDENTIAL

SIR Y K PAO'S CHEVENING WEEKEND: 13-14 SEPTEMBER 1986

(a) Hong Kong: Representative Government

Background

1.

The Secretary of State is aware that Sir Y K shares Chinese concerns over the pace of constitutional change in Hong Kong and has in the past sought to reflect these to

Ministers.

2.

As the

During Sir Y K's last round of calls on Ministers in June, he raised the question of when and how a Hong Kong "Chief Executive" might be added to the existing Hong Kong

system

Deputy as

to the Governor before 1997.

Secretary of State is aware, we are now examining in detail how a Chief Executive could be introduced, under a British

Governor, in the early 1990s. Sir Y K is of course unaware either of the detailed thought that we are now giving to this issue, or of our plan (in the light of the Governor's recent discussions in Peking) to propose introducing this question into our dialogue with the Chinese.

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