Secret.
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OPDK (92) 9
12 November 1992
CABINET
MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG AND
OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
HONG KONG: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Memorandum by the
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1.
We will be discussing the way ahead with the Governor at
OPD (K) on 18 November.
2.
His constitutional proposals, which we discussed at our
meeting on 15 September, have been generally well received in Hong
Kong, in this country and internationally. We recognised on 15
September that the Chinese would be bound to oppose them. have done so energetically.
3.
They
When the Governor visited Peking last month, the Chinese
rejected the entire package. They reacted with particular anger to our refusal to enter a process of private consultations with them before the Governor announced his proposals in Hong Kong. On the
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