TNAG-1963-FCO40-2795-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Commonwealth-War-Graves-Commission-1989 — Page 50

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BACKGROUND

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機密

3.

In response to a question, Mr. Richard Luce, then

Minister with Special Responsibility for Hong Kong, said

in Parliament on 31 October 1984 that "the question of war

graves in Hong Kong is not covered in the draft

Sino-British agreement on the future of Hong Kong. Proper

arrangements for war graves will need to be made. This is

the sort of subject I hope will be discussed by the

Sino-British Joint Liaison Group when the agreement enters

into force." The Commission have since been pressing for

this question to be raised in the Joint Liaison Group

(JLG) at an early date. This was raised by Sir Arthur

Hockaday, Director General of the Commission when he met

the Director of Urban Services

Services (DUS) in May 1985, and

again when he, together with representatives of the

Commission's member states, met DUS in November 1987. The

Commission have again written in August 1988 to the FCO

asking for a clear indication of the timing for discussion

of the subject in the JLG.

PRESENT POSITION

Land tenure

4.

The land for the Cemeteries was made available to

the Commission under two

two Deeds of Appropriation in 1953

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