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GRs 250 CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG

TO HMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 2799

OF 290845Z AUGUST 86

PERSONAL FOP WILSON, AUS ASHA FROM GOVERNOR.

FCO TELNO 1833 : EXCO VISIT TO LONDON: DAYA BAY.

1.4 AM SURE IT WILL BE RECOGNISED IN LONDON THAT WHAT MINISTERS SAY TO EXCO ON DAYA BAY WILL MAKE A STRONG POLITICAL IMPACT HERE. GAVEN HMG'S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE WELL BEING OF HONG KONG AND *TS ''PROSPERITY AND STABILITY**, HITS ESSENTIAL THAT THEY SHOULD

GINE THE MAXIMUM REASSURANCE ON BOTH THE BUILDING AND THE OPERATION OF THE PLANT. IF THEY DO NOT DO THI'S IT WILL NOT ONLY BE CLAIMED BY A MINORITY THAT HMG'S MOTIVES ARE COMMERCIAL GAN IN RESPECT OF THE GEC CONTRACT: THE MAJORITY WILL TAKE ALSO THE VIEW THAT HMG SHOULD NOT HAVE BECOME SO HNVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT AND GIVEN T SUCH STRONG SUPPORT UNLESS THEY WERE SATH SIFED THAT THE PLANT, BOTH IN BUILDING AND OPERATHON, WOULD CONSTITUTE NO THREAT TO THE WELL BEING OF THE TERRITORY, PARTICULARLY DURING THE PERIOD OF BRATISH

ADMINISTRATION.

2. T AS FOR THIS REASON THAT A STATEMENT CONTAINING SO MANY RESERVATIONS AS THAT SET OUT MN FCO TELNO 1385 WILL NOT DO: AND COULD INDEED BE A GIFT TO THOSE WHO WILL CLAIM THAT HMG AND THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAVE FALLEN DOWN ON THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. 4 WOULD ALSO HAVE THOUGHT THAT SUCH A STATEMENT WOULD BE READ AS ''VERY FAINT PRAISE BY THE CHINESE AND CERTAINLY NOT THE KIND OF SUPPORT FOR WHICH THEY ARE LOOKING. (THE AMBASSADOR WILL HOWEVER HAVE VIEWS ON THIS.}

3. HOPE THEREFORE THAT THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF AS REASSURING A STATEMENT AS POSSIBLE WILL BE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO MINISTERS.

AKERS-JONES

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HMLNAN 1148

GUANGDONG

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HKD

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SIR W HARDING

MR DAUNT

MR WILSON MR SLATER

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15 SEP 1986

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