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Foreign Affairs Committee

COMMITTEE OFFICE HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON SW1A OAA

Inquiries: 071-219 6106/6105/6394

Quentin Eyre-Wilson Esq

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Room WH 218

Downing Street (West)

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The Foreign Affairs Committee has decided to inquire into "relations between the United Kingdom and China in the period up to, and beyond, 1997". Interested individuals and organisations are invited to submit memoranda to the Committee by 7 July 1993.

The inquiry will examine relations with China over the period during which Hong Kong is to cease to be a British colony and thereafter. The Committee plans to interpret the above terms of reference widely and would welcome evidence setting UK relations with China in the context of recent developments in the Pacific Rim area.

The Committee will take oral evidence in the House of Commons on Wednesday 14 July 1993 at 10.30 am from Mr Alastair Goodlad, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Further evidence will be heard at Westminster in the autumn.

The Committee plans to visit China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in October 1993.

Memoranda, which should be no longer than 5000 words, should be addressed to the Clerk of the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA, from whom further information about the submission of evidence to the committee can be obtained.

Further information about the inquiry will be announced in due course.

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