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From: Miss R M Marsden

Hong Kong Dept

Date: 4 September 1989

Mr McLaren

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HONG KONG 3000 FOUNDATION: REQUEST FOR CALL ON MR MAUDE

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Problem

1. A letter from Mr David Wiseman of Rowland Public Affairs on

behalf of Mr Cliff Reece, the founder of a new organisation called "Hong Kong 3000 Foundation", requesting a call on Mr Maude during Mr Reece's visit to London from 6-8 September

Recommendation

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2. I recommend that Mr Maude declines, but suggests a call on Hong Kong Department instead. I submit a draft reply. The Hong Kong

Government have been consulted.

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Background

3. Mr Reece was previously Chairman of the (now disbanded)

expatriate group "Honour without Emigration", a pro right of abode organisation which met Sir Geoffrey Howe during his last visit to

Hong Kong. I understand that it was not a very felicitous

occasion.

4.

The Hong Kong 3000 Foundation appears to be a reincarnation of the earlier group, but with broader objectives than obtaining right of abode in the UK for all Hong Kong citizens, a cause that they apparently accept is lost. The Foundation's main aim is to raise Hong Kong's international profile by promoting the estalishment there of major international institutions, including a regional

branch of the United Nations. The Foundation's aims are set out in

Mr Wiseman's letter to Mr Maude and in the attached leaflet.