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ANNUAL REPORT ON HONG KONG, 1991

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1. In 1984, after the signature of the Joint Declaration, the Government undertook to produce an Annual Report on Hong Kong, with the aim of keeping Parliament informed of developments there. The Report for 1991 is the seventh in the series. These documents are factual (rather dull)

surveys of the Hong Kong Government's main activities during

the year, and they have not in the past occasioned any parliamentary interest.

exception.

This year's is unlikely to prove an

2. These reports are largely drafted in Hong Kong, and

edited in London. In order to give them a bit of a

political spin, it has been customary, since 1989, to preface them with a short foreword by the Secretary of State. The final draft of this year's report has been seen and approved by Lord Caithness and by the

Secretary of State.

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