TNAG-2295-FCO40-3309-Possible-visit-by-the-Dalai-Lama-to-Hong-Kong-1991 — Page 14

hkc 026/8

1. NOV 1991

Mr Davies, FED

CONFIDENTIAL

а нако

н

M Bunke

14

9

The Dalai Lama

The Secretary of State was grateful for your minute of 1 November. He is reluctant completely to alter the advice we had put to Number 10, for the reason given in the earlier correspondence: that the Prime Minister should not be seen to be taking this decision under pressure. Instead, he believes that the letter to Sir R Luce should issue once public speculation about the Dalai Lama's visit begins. I have written in this vein

to Number 10.

13 November 1991

CC:

PS/Lord Caithness PS/PUS

Sir J Coles

Mr Burns

Mr Ricketts, HKD

Mr Williams,

SAD

Mr Figgis, RAD

News Dept

PUSD

Protocol Dept

Special Advisers

CONFIDENTIAL

(S L Gass)