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FROM: P F Ricketts

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DATE: 11 November 1993

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HONG KONG: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Problem

1. What form of oath should we propose to the Chinese that Legislators elected in 1995 should take in order to ride the Through Train in 1997.

Recommendation

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That the oath should take the form of the attached draft proposed by the Hong Kong Government. Departmental Legal Advisers are content. I submit a draft telegram, which will need to be despatched today to meet Hong Kong's deadline.

Background and Argument

3. We discussed at the Secretary of State's Office Meeting on 9 November the terms of an oath which we would table in the talks,

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4. Hong Kong have now put together the attached draft oath.

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