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REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: LETTER FROM MR MARTIN LEE TO THE PRIME

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1. Before Mr Martin Lee and his two LegCo colleagues walked out of their meeting with Lord Glenarthur on 8 December, Mr Lee:

(i) handed to Lord Glenarthur a letter addressed to the

Prime Minister;

(ii) asked whether the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State

would receive him if he returned with a similar delegation in

January.

How should we respond?

Recommendation

2. I recommend that, as a first step, you write to Mr Powell at 10

Downing Street on the lines of the attached draft. The letter:

(i) describes the general lines of a reply to Mr Lee, to be sent by

Lord Glenarthur;

(ii) recommends that it should again be Lord Glenarthur who receives

the LegCo members of any further delegation which comes

London.

This recommendation is in line with the advice of the Governor of

Hong Kong.

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