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V. useful thank you.
Tim Denton's note was remarkably prophetic!
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SINO-PORTUGUESE JOINT DECLARATION ON MACAU
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In your minute of 10 October to Mr Paul, you asked for notes on, among other things, how the Joint Declaration on Hong Kong compared
with that on Macau.
2. Just after the signature of the Joint Declaration on Macau, Hong
Kong Department produced a detailed comparison. I attach a copy,
plus the covering submission from Mr Hum of 1 May 1987.
3.
You may also find it useful to recall Portuguese action
following the June events in Peking. The next Sino-Portuguese JLG
meeting had been scheduled for 31 July in Macau. After conflicting reports of postponement, and apparant indecision at a high level in
the Portuguese Government, the JLG not only went ahead on the
scheduled dates (albeit in Lisbon, not Macau) but was proceeded by
"informal talks" in Lisbon on 17-18 July. The Portuguese thought
the JLG meeting had been positive and pragmatic and that their
decision to get back to direct contact with the Chinese had borne
fruit.
The Chinese have since used praise for the Portuguese attitude as an implicit rebuke to us about our handling of contacts over Hong
Kong. For example, the outgoing Portuguese Ambassador in Peking was given an unusually high-level farewell in August; and during a
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