GRS200 SECRET
FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 117
OF 12103OZ JANUARY 87
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
SECRET
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RECEIVED IN REGTS-RY
14 JAN 1987
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RECIATRY Action Laken,
OUR TELNO 87: KOWLOON WALLED CITY"
1. BOYD AND QIAO MET AS PLANNED ON 12 JANUARY AND CONFIRMED AGREEMENT ON THE CLEARANCE PLAN. THEY EXCHANGED COPIES OF THE REPORTS BY EACH TO WILSON AND KE (BY NEXT BAG TO YOU AND PEKING). QIAO EXPRESSED SATISFACTION OVER THE WAY THESE DISCUSSIONS HAD
GONE. BOYD AGREED.
2. QIAO EXPRESSED SOME CONCERN OVER THE POSSIBLE DISCOVERY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHEN THE SURVEY TEAMS MOVED IN, LEADING TO ARRESTS AND THUS COMPLICATING THE SURVEY WORK. BOYD SAID THAT WE DID NOT THINK THAT THERE WERE MANY OF THEM IN THE WALLED CITY. MOST OF THEM WOULD PROBABLY GET OUT AS SOON AS THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE (THE WALLED CITY WOULD NOT BE SEALED OFF, AND PEOPLE COULD CONTINUE TO COME AND GO AS NORMAL). THE POLICE HAD BEEN ALERTED TO THE NEED FOR SENSITIVE HANDLING.
3. QIAO ALSO ASKED THAT THE DIFFICULT QUESTION OF UNLICENSED DENTISTS AND DOCTORS SHOULD BE LEFT TILL THE LAST PHASE, TO GIVE THEM UP TO THREE YEARS TO MAKE THEIR OWN ARRANGEMENTS. WE CONFIRMED THAT THIS WAS OUR INTENTION. IT WAS USUAL PRACTICE TO LEAVE THE TRICKIEST PROBLEMS TILL LAST.
4. QIAO SUGGESTED ONE CHANGE TO OUR PROPOSED ANSWER TO QUESTION D IN OUR TELNO 3968. AFTER SOME DISCUSSION WE AGREED TO SAY THAT ''THE SPOKESMAN OF THE CHINESE MFA HAS MADE A STATEMENT ON THE CLEARANCE OF THE WALLED CITY, WHICH EXPRESSES THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S FULL UNDERSTANDING OF HKG'S DECISION. ARRANGEMENTS REGARDING THE HANDLING OF REPRESENTATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.
AKERS-JONES
HMLNAN 7091
HONG KUNG AGREEMENT: RESTRICTED
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
RESEARCH DEPT (FE)
DEP/HD/PUSD
PS/MR RENTON
MR GILLMORE
MR WILSON
SECRET
COPIES TO:
MR FIFOOT
LEGAL ADVISERS
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