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OCMIAN 8464

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TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

TELNO 006

OF 021330Z JANUARY 87

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING

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FOLLOWING PERSONAL FOR ACTING GOVERNOR FROM LAYDEN, HONG KONG DEPARTMENT.

FCO TELNO 2918: POSSIBLE POSTPONEMENT OF 1987 REVIEW.

FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF PAPER DRAFTED BY HUM, WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN SUBMITTED OR CONSIDERED MORE WIDELY HERE. GRATEFUL FOR ANY

COMMENTS. (TIMETABLES WILL HAVE TO BE REVISED IN THE LIGHT OF PEKING TELNO 003 AND FURTHER EXCHANGES).

BEGINS

HONG KONG: REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

INTRODUCTION

1.

THIS PAPER CONSIDERS WHAT OUR STRATEGY AND TACTICS SHOULD

BE IN HANDLING THE REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN HONG

KONG.

THE BRITISH AND CHINESE POSITIONS

2.

WE HAVE MADE COMMITMENTS TO PARLIAMENT AND TO THE HONG

KONG PEOPLE THAT A REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT WILL BE

CONDUCTED IN 1987, THAT THERE WILL BE A PROCESS OF PUBLIC

CONSULTATION ON THE BASIS OF A GREEN PAPER BEFORE PROPOSALS ARE

PUT FORWARD IN A WHITE PAPER, AND THAT THE ISSUES FOR

CONSIDERATION WILL INCLUDE THOSE LEFT OVER FROM THE SIMILAR 1984

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