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psit.hk.PETER

JEB

April 1993

Roderic Lyne Esq CMG

Private Secretary

10 Downing Street

London SW1

HONG KONG

CONFIDENTIAL

The Governor is lunching with the Prime Minister on 13 April.

You asked for an update on recent developments and any points which the Governor might want to raise.

The Foreign Secretary will hold a thorough discussion of the

way forward on Hong Kong with the Governor on the morning of

16 April. Sir Robin McLaren will also participate in that

meeting. The Foreign Minister and the Governor will be

seeing the Prime Minister at 1430 on 16 April and will

therefore be able to report any operational conclusions to him then, as well as discuss the issue of arrangements in

1997 for Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Servants, on which we

will send a separate briefing letter. We expect that the

Governor will therefore see the lunch as an opportunity for general discussion.

The issue of the 1995 Legislative Council (LegCo) elections

and our row with China continues to dominate political debate in Hong Kong. The present position is as follows:

the Governor has published draft legislation embodying his proposals, but has not introduced

this into LegCo;

CONFIDENTIAL