TNAG-1869-FCO40-2657-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Macau-1989 — Page 143

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Telephone 01-

270 2655

SC Riordan Esq British Embassy PEKING

MKB 02014.

Dear

Chann

Your reference

Our reference

WAYALB

Date

8 May 1989

HONG KONG AND MACAO AFFAIRS OFFICE (HKMAO) MFA. PERSONALITY

1

•

NOTES

Thank you for your letter of 25 April enclosing the personality notes you have drawn exercise.

up.

This is a most useful

2. I have a couple of suggestions to offer:

i)

Guo Fengmin:

recent visit

ii)

iii)

you may wish to add a reference to his to Hong Kong.

Ye Shouzeng: former member of the JLG Hu Chuanzhong: a drafting point: in the second para, I assume the passage from the second sentence onwards ("Speaks good English...") refers to Hu, rather than to his wife. Presumably a new paragraph should begin there.

3. I recognise that the Embassy S contacts with the HKMAO of the State Council are much less frequent than with the MFA.

>

Nonethel ess I wonder whether you would be able to perform a similar exercise for the State Council? Perhaps Graham Leicester could also try his hand at notes on members of the Chinese JLG Office?

Yours ever,

Chris

C T WOOD

Hong Kong Department

cc:

GH Leicester Esq UKREP JLG Hong Kong

RC Wilson Esq GDB, Hong Kong

RAJ Bunten Esq APA(G), Hong Kong

KC Walker Esq Reseach Dept, (FE)

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