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We need to follow up Thank you
with advice on para 5. One that is done I think that the Sofs should write to mo Gore.
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Sir J Coles
Mr Burns
Mr Davies, FED
Mr Crystal, News D Special Advisers
CALL ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE BY MRS TERESA GORMAN MP
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1.
Mrs Gorman called on the Secretary of State at 10.00 am on 23 April. The meeting lasted approximately half an
hour.
2. Mrs Gorman said she knows Hong Kong quite well and has
in the past done business there. She was concerned about
the future, and wanted to make two main points. Her first
concern was the LegCo elections: she did not feel that
Britain was doing enough to help the embryo political parties of Hong Kong with the technical and organisational aspects of holding successful elections. Financial
resources were also a problem, and many of the people involved were politically naive. We should be inviting them over here to learn about election techniques or, better still, sending suitable advisers out to Hong Kong.
Mrs Gorman quoted the example of the Americans, who had paid for people, including some British MPs, to go to Latin America to help advise the new democratic parties there.
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