Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
W M Sulke Esq CBE JP
Urban Councillor
Bonaventure House, 1st Floor Leighton Road
HONG KONG
Dear is Sulke.
Telephone 01-
233 4439
Your reference
Our reference
HKK 011/1
Date
28 July 1986
330
1.
(327
Thank you for your letter of 25 June to Anthony Layden of this department. I apologise for the delay in reply, which has been occasioned in part by our attempts to establish why our previous letter should have been despatched by sea mail. This was an error which should not have occurred: all our official correspondence to Hong Kong is of
of course intended to go by air mail. I am sorry that a mistake apparently arose in this case.
2.
I fear that we shall have to agree to differ on the main point you make in the second paragraph of your letter. But please be assured that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, together with those other Departments of State involved in Hong Kong affairs, are fully conscious of the need to work towards a smooth transition in 1997 which will be satisfactory both for the British and Chinese Governments and for the people of Hong Kong. We shall continue to do all we can to this end over the next eleven years.
- 8 AUG 1986
Lars Sincerly.
Chita bank
CE Leeks
Hong Kong Department
AB 8/8
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