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Mr Hum

FROM:

DATE:

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PS/Mr Goodrad in anter

Private Secretary

PF Ricketts

Hong Kong Department

12 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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Whirged

Problem

How to take forward the HMOCS issue in the light of recent discussions with the Cabinet Office.

1.

A

now

Recommendation

2. (i) That we keep the Prime Minister engaged by encouraging No 10 to convene a meeting under his chairmanship to resolve the issue.

(ii) That we seek the Governor's views on the possibility of accepting a compromise solution at such a meeting.

Background

3. Following a meeting with the Secretary of State and the Governor on 16 April, the Prime Minister asked the Cabinet Secretary to recommend a solution to the HMOCS issue. Since then, the Cabinet Office have convened meetings with Treasury and FCO officials and are in the process of finalising a

innal paper, which they propose to circulate to the Secretary of

Attend

State and the Chief Secretary, copying to No 10.

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