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Hong Kong Department

28 February 1989

PS/Lord Glenarthur

PS/Mr Eggar

PS/PUS

Mr Gillmore

Mr Millington, FED

Mr Edwards, Legal

Mr McLaren

Private Secretary

Advisers

Mr Burns, News Dept

Mr Holt, PRU

FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY INTO HONG KONG :

INITIAL MEMORANDUM

1.

I submit the final version of the Memorandum and Annexes for

the Foreign Affairs Committee. As agreed, the text is still on draft paper, and can be finalised tomorrow morning once the

Secretary of State has approved it.

2.

The text takes account of the suggestions and marginal

comments made by the Secretary of State on the draft which he saw

over the weekend. It also incorporates some further comments from Hong Kong and some minor suggestions from Peking.

3.

I have looked again at the relevant paragraphs on

representative government in the light of Martin Lee's recent

article in The Times.

I am satisfied that the draft as it stands

takes account of his arguments, although it does not of course rebut

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