TNAG-2759-FCO40-3976-Henry-Keswick--UK-businessman--and-the-Hong-Kong-Association-1993 — Page 16

From the Private Secretary

ET MON

10 DOWNING STREET

LONDON SW1A 2AA

HUB 121/5

27 SEP 1993

8 September 1993

I have been inveigled by Charles Powell into lunching with the Committee of the Hong Kong Association on Friday 1 October. Given my profound ignorance of the subject, I have warned the Committee that this may be a rather fruitless experience from their point of view.

It would be enormously helpful if you or one of your cohorts could give me a quick oral up-date, perhaps on the morning of 1 October, on current issues in Hong Kong and on what you would like me to say to the Mandarins about the negotiations. I read the odd telegram in the dense series, but would be happy to receive a copy of any idiots guide or standard brief which you may have around at the time.

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copy of the

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Jala

RODERIC LYNE

letter sent

Peter Ricketts, Esq.,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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