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over the Scheme, sharing with them at an early stage our thoughts on various options, giving them the opportunity to express a preference. I frankly doubt whether such an approach would be practicable, or acceptable to the Hong Kong Government. But it does raise the question of whether we need to have made up our minds definitively about the details of the Scheme before we broach the subject with the Chinese.
4. I suggest that the best way forward might be for Mr Burns on his return to chair a meeting with the ODA and the Treasury to discuss the submission and the wider
implications.
Given that the ODA are taking an interest at Under-Secretary level, a meeting chaired at this level would seem to me to be appropriate.
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Good luck!
BIFADQ
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