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CONFIDENTIAL

Parliamentary Relations Unit

FROM:

CO Hum

Hong Kong Department

DATE:

17 February 1987

PQ BY MR ROGER SIMS: 18 FEBRUARY

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1.

I attach revised notes for supplementaries, taking

into account the points which I understand were made at

this morning's meeting of Ministers. The supplementaries

have

been somewhat

somewhat abbreviated and a statistical sheet on

Vietnamese refugees has been added.

2.

is

I understand that at this morning's meeting

references were made to recent unhelpful Chinese statements

about the 1987 review. The principal statements on these

lines were made by Lu Ping (Hong Kong Telno 510 refers).

There

already a supplementary to deal with the

assertion, which was picked up in the British press, that if political reforms did not converge with the Basic Law it

would be necessary to overturn them. A report in today's Times quotes Lu Ping as saying that "There could be no

I believe this report is

direct election before 1991".

inaccurate: the Hong Kong telegram seems to make it clear

that Lu refused to be drawn into any such categorical

added а supplementary on this point

which simply states that to the best of our knowledge no

statement on the lines of the Times' report was made.

statement.

I have

17 February 1987

Cottu

CO Hum

Hong Kong Department

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