TNAG-1717-FCO40-2397-Hong-Kong-1987-Review-of-Representative-Government-1988 — Page 9

DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)

DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

PRIVATE SECRETARY

TYPE: Draft/Final 1 +

Reference

PAYA FV

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C D Powell Esq

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SUBJECT:

CAVEAT

In Confidence

Thank you for your letter of 3 February enclosing a

letter to the Prime Minister from Mr John Daly, general

secretary of the National and Local Government Officers

Association.

I enclose a draft reply. A copy of the Foreign

Secretary's opening statement in the 20 January debate is

also enclosed for inclusion with the reply.

Enclosures flag(s)........

Mr Daly's main argument is that direct election

should be introduced into Hong Kong in 1988 to ensure

that by 1997 the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Government will be able to exercise the high degree of

autonomy envisaged in the Joint Declaration.

The attached draft reply is on similar lines to the

Prime Minister's reply to a Letter from Mr Michael Yahuda

on the same subject.