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HONG KONG TELNO.336 AND YOUR TELNO.82:
WHITE PAPER.
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT:
1. I SPOKE TO KE ZAISHUO ON THE TELEPHONE ON 26 JANUARY TO THANK HIM FOR HIS TIMELY REACTION TO OUR PAPER. I SAID THAT WE ACCEPTED HIS
PROPOSED TRANSLATION OF ''THE LATEST DRAFT OF THE BASIC LAW AND ADDED THAT WE WOULD REDRAFT PARA 6 OF OUR PAPER IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMMENTS HE HAD MADE. I THEN SUGGESTED THAT PIGOTT SHOULD CONVEY THE REVISED TEXT OF THAT PARAGRAPH TO AN APPROPORIATE MEMBER OF KE'S STAFF, TO WHICH KE REPLIED THAT WU HONGBO WOULD RECEIVE PIGOTT.
2. PIGOTT ACCORDINGLY CALLED ON WU ON THE MORNING OF 27 JANUARY, WENT OVER THE POINTS I HAD MADE TO KE, ALONG THE LINES OF PARA 2 OF FIRST TUR, AND HANDED OVER THE REVISED TEXT OF PARA 6 OF OUR PAPER.
3. WU UNDERTOOK TO REPORT TO KE AND TO ''OTHER AUTHORITIES CONCERNED'' HE ADDED THAT, IF THE CHINESE SIDE HAD ANY COMMENTS, THEY WOULD COME BACK TO US QUICKLY.
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