HKCC 012/4.
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
1993
CONFIDENTIAL
FROM:
PF Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DESK OFFICER
INDEX
PA
REGISTRY Action Taken
DATE:
28 January 1993
CC:
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HONG KONG:
1.
AMBASSADOR MA
The Secretary of State had back-to-back sessions on 27 January with a group of Liberal legislators led by Emily Lau, and Lords Prior and Young. I attach the telegrams. two meetings provided (fortuitously) a neat balance of differing view points.
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As you will see, Lords Prior and Young came to express concern about threats to their business in China arising from our dispute over Hong Kong. Lord Young spoke as
he had done to you a week ago. Both had been targets of arm-twisting by Ambassador Ma.
3.
The Secretary of State said to me afterwards that he would like Ambassador Ma called in and told that Ministers had noted his arm-twisting in the business community, considered that this went beyond what was reasonable and that it stood in contrast to the line taken with the Prime Minister by Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji about Sino-British trade. The Secretary of State thought that this might be done at senior official level. Would you be willing to ask Ambassador Ma to call next week? If so, I will concoct some points to make in conjunction with FED.
Yickelts
PF Ricketts
Ambassador Ma is out of handon at the beginning of the week. Appt booked for 12.00 a Thursday hebredry.
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