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Thank you for your letter of 18 January enclosing a
letter to the Prime Minister from Mr Michael Yahuda,
Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics.
may have seen that an edited version of the letter was carried in The Times on 19.
January.
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.
Mr Yahuda's thesis that direct elections should be
introduced into Hong Kong in 1988 is no doubt sincerely
held. But we believe it is based on a misreading of
public opinion in Hong Kong. There is also an underlying
misconception that the early introduction of direct
elections would in itself somehow guarantee Hong Kong's
continued well being after 1997.
Hong Kong's best interests lie in the steady and
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