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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

9/6/89

Head of

FED

Please submit :-

a draft Answer & background to Parliamentary Unit

before

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SERIAL NO;1907

TEXT OF QUESTION :-

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to P/S

LORD GLENARTHLID

(Minister)

MR CLIVE SOLEY (HAMMERSMITH)

To ask the Secretary of State/HMG;

what representations he has made to the Chinese Government about the detention of Lee Cheuk Yun.

HKB 020/14

for answer by

MR. EGGAR

(Minister)

ANSWER:

for approval by NOON E9 JUN 1989

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REPLY (s)

Following

's detention by police at Peking airport

on 5 June, our Embassy in Peking lodged an immediate enquiry

with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made

considerable efforts to trace his whereabouts. The Embassy

subsequently established that he was unharmed in a hotel room

in Peking and kept in close contact with him. We have now

was evacuated safely from

had confirmation that

Peking on 8 June.

copy to

Private Secretary

PS/I

MR ECGAD

(Minister

Parliamentary Clerk

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