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Dear David,

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13 FEBRUARY 1991

Your fax of 12 February.

I enclose the exchange of correspondence I have had with Sinclair on this is,uo pluo a copy of his article in Monday's SCMP. As you will see from my fax of 11 February T have correntað

hie bolief that there ТАД no briefing for Hong Kong Journalists. No doubt he feels he should have been invited as he regarda himeo] f

Ano of Hong Kong's leading commentators, a view not held by everyone? The fact is that the editor of his newspaper, Philip Crawley, was invited and as а result wrote a not unhelpful editorial on 2 February (copy also attached).

As to question 3, I selected the journalists and invited them; Hong Kong Government (who as

you will see from Sinclair' s article and fax of 9 February are also out of favour) played no part in the exercise.

to have broken away

The media verdioto on the visit and the lack or a press conference are not yet all in. When they are I plan to let HKD have a view on any adjustments that need to be made for future visits. As of now we seem

Luc Lycally of a press conference with some success. That said I need to look carefully at how to handle the TV stations ን ኮን the next' vizit

they were very ¿Llilaled by the way they were "excluded". The fact that they had endless coverage of the Minister's visit does not seem to count?

This office

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aloood on 14 and 15 February for Chinese New Year year of the Ram) but please call me at home if you need any further information.

Yours ever,

Chris.

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