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Zara 37, seventh sentence, 15th line: after "restriction оли the sentence should go on: "Hong Kong membera of Chinese People's Congresses were to

Para 45, first sentence: afler "permit" the sentence should go 04: "Hong Kong residents who 210 membera of Chinese People's Congresses to serve

Pala 47:

the last word in brackets should read "rural bodies" not *villages".

Pará. 69: the first sentence does not quite capture the Actual defintion of FCB in the 1988 White Paper, which does not specifically refer to "economic and professional" sectora. Euggest rewarding the sentence as follows: "The Hong Kong Government's 1986 White Paper defined functional constitutengas ao representing sectora of substantial size and importance in Hong Kong.

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Baxa 72 first sentence; the total franchise for the FCB proposed originally by the Chincae would in fact be about

130,000, not 140,000. passage in brackets.

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Pase 72, fourth sentence:

'50" should read "60".

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Centence: after "permit", the sentence Vshould go on: "Hong Kong residents who are members of

Chinese People's Congresses to become members

More substantively, you will no doubt be adding a draft paragraph or 20 on the outcome of Round 17, to pur at the end of PEPE II of the Paper. As you will see from telegram

seading separately today, the Governor is keen that this should highlight the fact that the Chinese side have retreated from their original wording on the appointed members inque by removing their own" from their formula. The Paper should Lao refor to the Chinese reasoning behind this change, revealed to Christopher Hum by Jiang Enzhu.

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It would be very helpful if you would fax us revised draft verzien of the text, including all the Annexes, onca it is ready, oo that we can finalise translation process which is already well under way.

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Nigel Cox Esq., British Embassy, Peking

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