TNAG-2687-FCO40-3889-Hong-Kong-Her-Majesty-s-Overseas-Civil-Service-(HMOCS)-poli-1993 — Page 145

Confidential

FROM:

J C Morris

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Інка 23311

DATE:

26 MAY 1993

cc:

Mr Hum]

PS/Mr Goodlad

Minter

Private Secretary

Hong Kong Department

19 May 1993

PS/Baroness Chalker PS/PUS

Sir J Coles

Mr Muir

Mr Kirby, ODA

Miss Brooks,

Legal Advisers

Mr Fish, ODA

RMD

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A 1. As requested in your minute of 18 May, I submit a clutch

card and a copy of Hong Kong telno 774 for the Foreign Secretary's use with the Chief Secretary.

2. Mr Ricketts who is currently in Hong Kong spoke to the Governor yesterday about HMOCS (ie before the Secretary of State's bilateral with the Prime Minister). The Governor said

that he had recently had a meeting with HMOCs officers in the

Hong Kong Police and was convinced that they would reject firmly anything less than the FCO proposal. The Governor regards the FCO proposal as already constituting a significant compromise and the minimum acceptable.

3.

Mr Ricketts subsequently explained to the Governor where

matters stood following the Secretary of State's conversation with the Prime Minister. The Governor remains very firm: he is against any attempt to split the difference with the

Treasury and says he would publicly oppose any offer to HMOCS falling short of the FCO proposal.

sum.clu.MIN

NJH/SLM

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