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15 December 1993

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Martin Dinham Esq

Personal Adviser to the Governor

Government House HONG KONG

London SWIA 2AH

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Dear Martin,

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1. Many thanks for your letter of 15 December.

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2. I am sorry to be tiresome, but we do still have a difference of vicw ovel the importance to be attached to the point about "no unilateral legislation". Our concern is that we should not over-state our case and thereby damage our own credibility as the full record emerges.

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I continue to think that we risk looking a bit naive if we maintain that this was a new point to us and that we were prepared to take it at face value as an insurmountable obstacle. Christopher Hum and I both feel that the argument is more effectively made by using the two substantive issues where there

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