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This answer was the front-page lead in the Hong Kong Standard today ("Patten promises 50-year Safeguard") and was also reported, with a little less prominence, in the SCMP and the Chinese language press.

Yous and

Br

عسلنام

(R.J.F. Hoare)

Private Secretary

cc: Mr. Nigel Cox, Peking

Mr. W. Ehrman, PA

Mr. A.R. Paul, UKRep JLG

Mr. Peter Ricketts

Head

Hong Kong Department

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

London

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