TNAG-2495-FCO40-3628-Future-of-Hong-Kong-talks-between-the-UK-and-China-regarding-1992 — Page 18

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1. In my post mortem for the Secretary of State on our

failure to unearth at an earlier stage the 1990 exchanges of

letters, I said that RAD were doing some urgent work on the

negotiating record since 1984, and as a priority were

assembling an index of Ministerial exchanges with the Chinese.

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2. I thought that the Minister of State might be interested

to see the progress that has been made. Mr Wye, the Head of

the Far East Section in RAD, has given this top priority. has now produced a valuable minute together with a lengthy

annex detailing the main exchanges with the Chinese.

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annex.

I do not suggest that the Minister of State need read the

But a glance at it will show the formidable amount of

ground which has been covered in Sino-British negotiations on

Hong Kong constitutional issues since 1984.

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Some important points emerge form Mr Wye's minute:

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