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A s Sir R Evans
observes, it would be
out his natural opposite number, Vice
further thought.
unwise to seem to cut out his natural
Foreign Minister Zhou Nan.
Papers
13.
At the end of January Mr Galsworthy submitted a copy of a Hong Kong Government paper on the 1987 review and the
issue of convergence.
The original paper has now been
amended in the Light of subsequent exchanges with the
papers and put in a
into
three
separate
Cinese, divided
form suitable for handing to the
comprise:
Chinese.
The texts
This
a) a basic
paper on the issue of convergence. aims to set out the steps by which the existing Hong
Kong system could be converted into a
is system that
consistent with the Joint Declaration (and hence by
implication with the Basic Law);
b)
supplementary paper to (a) setting out how the Hong Kong Government system now works in practice;
It
c) a second supplementary paper describing the present state of opinion in Hong Kong on the 1987 review. seeks to present the various aspects of the system on
which public opinion may be
in expected to comment
1987, while stressing that we have no pre-conceived plan of what the outcome of the review should
be.
Kong
will
14.
official The present texts are drafts, agreed at level between Hong Kong, Peking and the FCO. They will be
at a special considered by ExCo
special meeting on 2 April.
then telegraph further comments
Hong
or
amendments
before I submit the papers formally. But the Secretary of
State
might find
progress.
it helpful to Look at
the work in
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