TNAG-2363-FCO40-3434-Visits-by-MPs-from-the-UK-to-Hong-Kong-1992 — Page 65

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HOUSE OF COMMONS recessary

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8th May 1991.

Rt. Hon. Douglas Hurd, C.B.E., M.P.,

Secretary of State,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

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London, SW1A 2AH.

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of the International Executive of the Inter- Parliamentary Union recognising that Michael Clark as Chairman of the British Group of the IPU, will be in touch with you on general aspects of the 85th Conference in North Korea from April 29th to May 4th 1991. My purpose in writing, therefore, is to concentrate on those matters on which we have corresponded previously and in which I have a continued interest and responsibility.

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China/Hong Kong Details of the useful exchanges which we had with Yao Guang and the rest of the Chinese IPU delegation in both Beijing and Pyongyang (including the useful lunch which Michael Clark arranged for the entire Chinese delegation) will have been fed into the system and I am seeking a separate meeting with Malcolm Caithness to develop the comments which follow in more detail. At this stage, I simply want to stress two aspects.

First, I believe that Yao Guang, as leader of the Chinese IPU delegation and a fellow member of the International Executive (together with his background as a vice president of the PNC Foreign Affairs Commission and a former Ambassador to France) all make him a useful conduit in passing on a frank assessment of the present difficulties over the Hong Kong port and airport development project. As a member of the original drafting committee on the Hong Kong agreement/new law in 1984, he is well informed. Moreover, I have no reason to doubt his assessment that Li Peng has direct charge of the current state of talks on the project or his access to the Chinese Prime Minister in passing on the frank views which we had heard both in our Foreign Office briefing and in my talks with the Hong Kong Government. I hope therefore we may make further use of this channel of communication.

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