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CONFIDENTIAL

R

x Geoffrey Howe LC MP

etary of State for Foreign AffairS

Forelan & Commonwealth

inc Charles Street

London.

SW1A DAH :

1. Ac Mr Forman

2. PA

37

17

December 1988

الله

A:

1.

is Gime

17207

مرقم

2001.

SONG FONG: GENERAL COMPENSATION &SHEME

:OF YOUr minute of

7.32K ,、།

2

Pasures

over

SL.

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November to Nigei Lawson outlining you consider necessary to compensate members of He:

Jervice HMOCS) collowing The

verseas

to the Chinese in 1997.

recognise that AMOCO should stay on continuity

turther

if

transfer 0:

to ensure deciding

adequatc whether

So,

what

form

0:

L

It is desirable that sufficient numbers 0: in Hong King after 1997

iamınıštration. But in public Inducement is necessary, and, Inducement would be materially effective are clearly difficul: matters of judgement.

I understand your reasons fox believing that a general compensation scheme for expatriatɛ officers should be drawn up and announced shortly, scheme should be funded by HMG. I note that you expect it to cost between £10 and £20 million over the 10 years from 1997.

AS YOU

would nat

However

and

that the

responsibility

would

ave acknowledged, the vote aturally fall to the FCO/ODA. I think you are right to suggest aic hat diversion of aid funds to a territory not qualifying for

defensible. But I do not think I can give any So far in advance ot undertaking on the source of the funds requirement. If we commit ourselves to a financial obligation our successors will naturally recognise the force of that But am sure that they will want to agree precisely how to meet it in PES terms in the light of the circumstances then prevailing.

commitment.

I should be most grateful to be kept in touch with progress.

I

am copying this

letter to Chris Patten.

A.

JOHN MAJOR