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June 1993

Roderic Lyne Esq CMG

Private Secretary

10 Downing Street

London SW1

CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG

My letter of 4 June gave an up-date on progress at the

Fourth Round of talks on Hong Kong's electoral issues.

The Foreign Secretary has been considering with the ́

Governor and Sir R McLaren how we can press the talks

forward to a successful conclusion. We plan to hold two

further rounds of talks in June. By the end of these, we think that the negotiators will have got as far as

they can in probing Chinese views on specific electoral arrangements. The Foreign Secretary therefore considers

that we should plan to review progress and consider the

way forward in OPD (K) at that time. I understand that

provisional arrangements have been made for an OPD (K) on

1 July. The Foreign Secretary proposes that this date

should be confirmed. He would circulate a memorandum in

advance as the basis for discussion. He suggests that

the Governor and Sir R McLaren should be invited to

participate, as they did on the last occasion in

November.

CONFIDENTIAL