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Mr Burns

PS/Lord Caithness

Private Secretary

FROM: P F Ricketts

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 13 September 1991

cc: PS/PUS

Sir J Coles

Mr Berman,

Legal Advisers New File:

15.0.5 meeting with Chinese Foreign

Formeign Minister

HONG KONG: BRIEFING THE SECRETARY OF STATE ON JLG WORK

1.

The Private Secretary has asked for advice on how best

to keep the Secretary of State up-to-date on the work of the

JLG.

2.

There are no agreed minutes of JLG meetings. I propose that Mr Galsworthy in Hong Kong should send a fortnightly

sitrep on JLG business, written for the non-expert; and that

we should submit this in time for Ministers' weekend boxes

with any additional glosses necessary, advice on how to use forthcoming Ministerial contacts with the Chinese to take

business forward etc. I would aim to keep such submissions

very brief.

3. The Secretary of State may also like to know of developments on two items of JLG business which the Prime

Minister and he raised in China:

(a)

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