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HONG KONG: REPLY TO THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

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1.

Mr Robert Wilson, Clerk of the Committee telephoned me this

morning about the Government's further reply to the Foreign Affairs

Committee's report on Hong Kong.

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Making it clear that he was speaking with the authority of the

Chairman and the Committee members, Mr Wilson said that the

Committee wanted to have a full reply to all the specific

recommendations in their Report in the form of a Command Paper,

soon as possible. They accepted that it would contain nothing new, but attached importance to there being a comprehensive reply for the record. They hoped that this would be available in

time for the Second Reading of the Nationality Bill.

3. I thanked Mr Wilson for this clear statement of the Committee's

wishes, and undertook to convey this to Ministers immediately. I

pointed out, however, that the intervening Easter Holiday and the

inevitable printing time table would make it impossible for us to

produce a Command Paper by 19 April. I assured him that we would give the task the highest priority and would aim to let the

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