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HKK 256/1
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08 JAN1986
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HKK 256/1
FROM:
DATE: 8 January 1986
A C Galsworthy
cc: PS/Mr Renton
Sir W Harding
HONG KONG: LETTER FROM MR JACK SON - LI PKIN
Problem
A
1.
A letter to the Secretary of State from the Hon Justice Mr Jackson-Lipkin. How should we reply?
Recommendation
2.
/
B
I recommend that the Secretary of State replies on the
lines of the first attached draft (draft A), which takes into
account the Governor's strong hope that the Secretary of State should not correspond with Mr Jackson-Ligkin on the substance of his letter. I attach a second draft which could be sent if
draft which the Secretary of State felt that this advice was not
acceptable: its text has been cleared with the Hong Kong
Government.
Background
3.
Mr Jackson-Lipkin, a Judge of the
High Court of
Hong Kong, wrote to the Secretary of State in a letter dated
13 December to report
overseas recruiting for
reports a meeting between the Director of tne New China News
Agency and a number of Hong Kong judges. In his address to the judges, Mr Xu stressed the Chinese wish that foreign nationals
should continue to work in Hong Kong for the stability and
prosperity of the territory, and that China would both allow
and encourage them to do so after 1997. The Secretary of State
has commented that he is not clear about the nature of the
Chinese concern "about the ban on
the Civil Service". This letter
alleged ban on
service.
overseas
recruiting for the Hong Kong civil
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