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HONG KONG: ARRANGEMENTS FOR HM OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE
1. We agreed at our meeting on 2 July that officials should set out a range of costed options for meeting the legitimate expectations of HMOCS officers, and that we should meet again in the autumn.
Officials have now recubed)
2. (I understand that agreement (has now been reached at the
the (working level on the options, and that a paper setting them
out will be finalised within the next few days.
3.
I copied to you the Governor's letter to me of 13 October on this subjeet. He is clearly very concerned that this issue should be resolved as soon as possible, and certainly before the end of this year. I share his concern and believe the time has come for us to take political decisions to settle this difficult matter once and for all.
4.
stick to thing I hope it will be possible for us to agree a revised Kiretaske package of benefits for Hong Kong HMOCS officers before the Governor returns on 15 November. If we are to achieve this/we you and I will need to meet next week.) I plan to let you have my views on the options, and on a package which we could reasonably put to HMOCS members, as soon as the paper is finalised. Could I suggest we meet on 10 November? Our offices can pin down the details.]
If recessary, we could
Conclude any
uresowed poûts which an Governor
in OPD (K) on 18 Nov.
will attend
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DOUGLAS HURD
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
November 1992
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