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CONFIDENTIAL

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Secretary of Stato

,10 MAR 1992

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HKA 233/1

FROM: N J Cox

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 10 March 1992

Mr Ricketts Mr Burns

PS/Lord Caithness

Private Secretary

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HONG KONG: HMOCS

cc: PS/PUS

Sir J Coles

Mr Davies, FED

Mr Muir

Miss Brooks,

Legal Advisers

Mr Kerby, ODA

Mr Fish, ODA

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Problem

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Next steps, in the light of the Chief Secretary's letter

of 4 March.

Recommendations

2.

I recommend that, to conclude this phase of Ministerial correspondence, the Secretary of State should minute the

Chief Secretary:

(a) reserving our position on pensions (ie sterling

safeguards and SPOS), picking up some of the Chief Secretary's arguments and agreeing that officials need to explore all options before decisions are taken;

(b) confirming that Lord Caithness has therefore confined

his statement (so far only in the form of a confidential

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