TNAG-1440-FCO40-1924-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 48

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FM HONG KONG

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 1408

OF 090945Z MAY 86

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING

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19 MAY 1986

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MY TELNO 1381: SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH WU XUEQIAN

1. FURTHER TO PARA. 5 OF TUR, # SEEM TO RECALL (ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT

NOW PUT OUR HANDS ON THE RELEVANT PAPERS HERE) THAT THE SPEEDING

UP OF THE DISTRICT BOARD PROCESS BEGAN AFTER A VHISHIT TO LONDON MIN

1979 BY URBAN COUNCILLORS ELSIE ELLIOTT AND BROOK BERNACCHI AND

THE PUTTING-DOWN OF AN EARLY DAY MOT:HON IN PARLIAMENT WHICH

ATTRACTED ABOUT 150 SIGNATURES. MR. BLAKER THEN TOOK THE MATTER

UP WITH THE THEN GOVERNOR DURING ONE OF HIS VISITS TO LONDON.

2. #F A CHECK OF THE PAPERS SHOWS MY MEMORY TO BE CORRECT, YOU MAY WISH TO SUGGEST TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE THAT OF WU DOES ARGUE

THAT HMG HAS ONLY TAKEN AN INTEREST IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SINCE THE NEGOTINATIONS BEGAN, HE MIGHT QUOTE THESE EVENTS AS EVIDENCE THAT PRESSURE ON THIS SUBJECT BEGAN, IN HONG KONG AND (IN PARLIAMENT, WELL BEFORE 1982. THE 1982 DB ELECTIONS AND THE 1984 GREEN AND WHITE PAPERS WERE ONLY THE CULMINATION OF A PROCESS THAT

STARTED MUCH EARLIER.

YOUDE

HONG KONG AGREEMENT

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

HD/PLANNING STAFF

DEP HD/PUSD

HD/PUSD

RD (MR WALKER)

COPIES TO:- MR ROBERTS MR FIFOOT

MR WOOD MR PEIRCE

MR MALLABY

NEWS DEPT

LEGAL ADVISERS LEGAL ADVISERS

ASSESSMENTS STAFF CABINET OFFICI

CABINET OFFICE

MR DRC CHRISTOPHER CABINET OFFICE SIR P CRADOCK NO 10 DOWNING STREET

PS

PS/LADY YOUNG

PS/MR RENTON

PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING

SIR J FREELAND

MR WILSON

MR CROWLEY

PUSD

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