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INFO DESKBY 15010OZ PEKING (PEPSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR)
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FOLLOWING PERSONAL FOR WILSON, AUS ASIA FPOM GOVERNOR
1. YOU WILL SEE FROM MY TELNO 146 THAT IF WE ALLOW THESE ISSUES TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THE UNOFFICIALS ANNOUNCE THAT THEY ARE SENDING A DELEGATION TO SEE THE PRIME MINISTER WE SHALL HAVE REACHED AN EXTREMELY TRICKY POINT IN THE RELATIONS PETWEEN HONG
KONG AND LONDON.
2. THE PRIME MINISTER WOULD BE BOUND TO RECEIVE UNOFFICIALS. IN HEP MEETING WITH THE UNOFFICIALS ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1984 (AT WHICH THE PUS WAS PRESENT) SHE TOLD THE UNOFFICIALS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HESTATE TO SEEK ANOTHER VISIT TO LONDON IF THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS NECESSARY.
3. THE UNOFFICIALS ARE UNANIMOUS THAT IT IS WITHIN THE GIFT OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM THE ENDORSEMENT THEY WANT. ON SOME 4SSUES IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT THE DIFFICULTY LIES WITH THE CHINESE. ON THIS ONE HT CANNOT AND THEY WILL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH ARGUMENTS
IF ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH THE IMMIGRATION PULES. AS MISS DUNN SAID, THERE IS A WILL THERE 4S A WAY.
4. IF IT GETS TO THE POINT WHERE THEY SEE THE PRIME MINISTER AND THEY ARE TURNED DOWN, THE SENSE OF RESENTMENT AND BETRAYAL AMONG .EXCO UNOFFICIALS WILL BE STRONG. THEY PUT THEIR NAMES ON THE LINE
IN FAVOUR OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE AGREEMENT IN SPITE OF THEIR RESERVATIONS SEMICOLON THEY ARE NOW LOOKING FOR A RECIPROCAL UNDERSTANDING FROM HMG ON THE IP CONCERNS.
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