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PS/Mr Eggar

#8 JUL 1988

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DEBATE ON HONG KONG: 15 JULY 1988

1.

INLA

akun

You suggested that, in preparation for the forthcoming-debate,

Mr Eggar would find it helpful to see some recent papers on key

issues.

2.

I submit a folder containing the following:

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

reporting telegrams from Hong Kong on the Secretary of State's meeting with the Executive Council and Councillors

during his visit to Hong Kong at the end of May;

a transcript of the Secretary of State's press conference

in Hong Kong on 31 May;

a reporting telegram on Lord Glenarthur's meeting with ExCo

on 30 June;

briefs on the following subjects prepared for Lord

Glenarthur's visit to Hong Kong, which remain

generally up

to date:

the Basic Law

Vietnamese Boat People

representative government

nationality and immigration questions

proposed World Exhibition in Hong Kong in 1997

Material on all of these is being submitted separately in the form

of defensive modules for the debate.

Crotun

CO Hum

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