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In confidence

Foreign Affairs Committee visit to Hong Kong, 16-19 October 1993

Proposed meetings:

- Governor

Hong Kong Government (advisers suggest including Leo Goodstadt (former Editor of Far East Economic Review, now with Government think tank on China) - Members of Executive Council (including Baroness Lydia Dunn)

LegCo members: by party group so far as possible (Note: no order of priority is suggested in the following list; meetings to be arranged as convenient to partcipants and to include non-members of LegCo if the parties wish, subject if possible to a maximum of 8 interlocutors at each meeting):

Liberal Party

United Democrats of Hong Kong

Meeting Point

The Lobby Group

Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood

Hong Kong Democratic Foundation

Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (including Mr Tsang Yok-sing?)

New Hong Kong Alliance

Independent Members (in groups if feasible; Mrs Elsie Tu has submitted

a memorandum; advice on others the Committee should invite would be

welcome)

- Members of Joint Liaison Group

- (?)Members of Municipal and District Boards

- Senior military and police officers

- Mr Zhou Nyan: Director Xinhua news agency

Members of new advisory groups set up by Peking (for example Mr T K Ann, Sir David Akers-Jones, Dr Raymond Wu, Mr Li Ka-Shing and/or others)

- Business leaders who have close links with the Peking Government (Mr Gordon Wu, Mr Li Ka Shing, and/or others)

- Hong Kong based heads of the leading Western companies (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,Jardine Matheson, Simon Keswick, John Swire and/or others) - Mr Vincent Lo, Chairman, Business and Professionals Federation

- Journalists (Editors S China Press, Far East Economic Review, Ms Margaret Ng (author of article in South China Morning Post, 13 July, about the inquiry)

Council of Hong Kong Indian Associations

- Hong Kong Journalists Association

-(?) Hong Kong Christian Council/Christian Institute

-(?) HongKong Bar Association

- British Council

- China Trade Unit

21 July 1993