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CONFIDENTIAL

9. Finally I take issue with your reference to a lack of

flexibility and positive thinking on the part of HKG. The

Governor and his team face an immensely difficult task in the next five years. They have done, and are doing,

remarkably well. They need and deserve our support. We have immense interests in Hong Kong's continuing success:

cannot expect the defence of such national interests to be

cost-free.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

26 February 1992

TUGABK/4

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(DOUGLAS HURD)