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Sir J Coles
PS/Mr Goodlad
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PF Ricketts
-1 FEB 1993
Hong Kong Department
1 February 1993
Private Secretary
Mr Davies, FED
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Ms Everett, News Dept
HONG KONG:
PROBLEM
CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
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EXCO 2 FEBRUARY
1. Response to the Governor's telno 139 setting out his
tactical thinking for ExCo on 2 February.
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RECOMMENDATION
2. A compromise approach I have worked out on the telephone today with Messrs Ehrman and Dinham. I submit a draft telegram
which will need to be despatched this evening, 1 February.
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BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
3. The Governor discussed tactics for the ExCo meeting on 2 February with Mr Goodlad on the secure telephone this morning. The Governor said that his preference was to press for a firm
decision at that meeting that his proposals should be tabled
without amendment. Such a decision would need to be announced
immediately otherwise it would leak.
4.
We have now had a telegram from the Governor setting out his thinking, together with drafts of three possible public statements following the ExCo meeting. It turns out that our telno 84 to Hong Kong, which they should have received on 30 January, has not been seen by anyone in Hong Kong. (It was, however, received in Peking, because Sir R McLaren has commented on it.) As a result, the Governor's telegram took no
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