TNAG-1636-FCO40-2252-Visits-by-FCO-officials-to-Hong-Kong-1987 — Page 62

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Mr Long, Deputy Chief Clerk

YOUR VISIT TO HONG KONG

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DATE:

29 May 1987

CC:

Mr McLaren

Mr Masefield, FED

Mr Bertram, OED

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I attach the following briefing material for your visit to Hong Kong:

This

a paper on the future British Consulate-General in Hong Kong.

Mr McLaren wishes to paper has been agreed between HKD and OED. consider it further before it is passed formally to the Administration: but I think you would find it helpful to see how far we have taken

to be taken our thinking at this stage.

These are covered in a separate, more highly classified

into account.

annex; and

the general background brief which we hand out to visitors to Hong Kong, together with a political brief prepared for a recent visit by

Mr Spicer.

Mr McLaren will be minuting separately to you with a paper which we have written on the implications of the establishment of the Joint Liaison Group in Hong Kong after July 1988.

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