CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO NIMMEDHATE FCO
TELNO 2581
OF 11052OZ AUGUST 86
CONFIDENTIAL
FOLLOWING FOR HUM, HKD, FROM ACTING GOVERNOR.
YOUR TELNO 1693
PVA
(Evily
Emily Lawn
LYDNA DUNN S BACK IN LONDON AND WILL BE THERE NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WRST IN SEPTEMBER.
2. THE GOVERNOR WILL, I AM SURE, PUT THE RECORD STRAIGHT AT THE NEXT MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL ON 26 AUGUST.
3. WE WILL RAHISE HIN A SUITABLE WAY WITH MS LAU.
4.
FOLLOWING IS TRANSCRIPT AND TRANSLATION OF HER REMARKS N CANTONESE WHICH # HAVE CHECKED PERSONALLY.
QUOTE
EXERPTS FROM A PANEL DISCUSSION ON RADIO-1'S 'N PERSPECT»IVE''
2 AUGUST 1986.
EMILY LAU:
...
* RETURNED FROM LONDON RECENTLY. WHILE IN LONDON
HEARD SOMETHING VERY ASTONISHING RELATING TO THE NATIONALITY ACT.
AT THE THIME, LEGCO HAD PUT FORWARD THREE REQUESTS. THE FIRST WAS TO LET ETHNIC INDIANS HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODEN BRITAIN. THE
SECOND WAS THE RIGHT OF ABODE ENDORSEMENT ON OUR PASSPORTS. THE
THIRD WAS... WHAT WAS HIT?... (SERVICEMEN) AH YES, RETIRED SERV CEMEN. AT THE TIME, THE REQUESTS WERE SUPPORTED BY EXCO AND LEGCO. EVEN THE HK GOVERNMENT WAS #N SUPPORT. WHAT # HEARD FROM A SOURCE
MN THE FOREIGN OFFICE WAS THAT SOME EXCO MEMBERS HAD TOLD THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT THAT IT WOULD BE ALRIGHT IF THEY GRANTED TWO OF THE REQUESTS, WITH TWO REQUESTS GRANTED THE SITUATION COULD BE CONTAINED. THEY ACTUALLY TOLD THEM SO EITHER ON BEHALF OF EXCO OR IN THEIR CAPACITY AS EXCO MEMBERS. BRITAIN OF COURSE HAD MADE TS STAND VERY CLEAR, THE THIRD REQUEST, CONCERNING THE MINDIANS, WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION. EXCO MEMBERS ON THE ONE HAND TOLD LEGCO MEMBERS THAT WE WANTED THREE THINGS. BUT ON THE OTHER, THEY TOLD THE BRITISH ON THE SIDE THE THE SITUATION COULD BE CONTAINED F THEY GRANTED TWO. ON RETURN, A GROUP OF PEOPLE TALKED A LOT ABOUT GOING TO BRITAIN. BUT EXCO MEMBERS BUT A STOP ON THAT, SAYING THAT MOVING A MOTHON MN HK WOULD DO. FROM THIS, YOU CAN SEE THAT EXCO IS CONTROL OF EVERYTHING.
UNQUOTE
AKERS-JONES
HMLNAN 0266
LIMITED HKD NEWS D INFO D
PS/MR RENTON SIR W HARD ING MR WILSON
CONFIDENTIAL
HRK ON RECEIVED
19 AUG 1986
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