TNAG-2739-FCO40-3953-Future-of-Hong-Kong-constitutional-development--through-tra-1993 — Page 33

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British Embassy

Peking

na com 719x

pa (1) Through Dain (072/7)

5 November 1993

P

Ricketts Esq

AK Department

'FCO

BY CLASSIFIED FAX PRIORITY)

Dear fete,

Jian Guo Men War

Peking

People's Republic of China

Telephone: 532 1961 2/3 4 5 Cable: Prodrome Peking

HKB OIL/7:

REC

IN

Telex: 22191

Facsimile: 582 1939 ext. 239

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h. Marie

! Your point

exactly!

Mhe. Ruoka 5/.. -Max San

HONG KONG: TALKS ON ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS: THROUGH TRAIN OATH

1. Thank you for copying to me your faxed letter of 3 November to Bob Peirce.

2. Although we think that David Edward's draft is good work, the Ambassador feels that it will be necessary to include something to meet the long-standing and top-level Chinese position that the Hong Kong people who run Hong Kong after 1997 must be patriotic and love Hong Kong. This may sound "silly" to us, but we ought to be able to find unobjectionable wording to reflect the point.

3. CAB are best placed to judge what would be acceptable in Hong Kong, so I shall forbear from offering a draft!

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Yours ever

Nigel.

N J Cox

cc:

R N Peirce Esq Political Adviser

Hong Kong

(By classified fax)

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