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UK/HKSAR Agreements

Notes of meeting on 14 May 1993 in LO (IL)'s office

Present

Mr D.M. Edwards

Miss Barbara Ellington

Mr K.S. Cheung

Mr Thomas Yiu

LO (IL)

(Chairman)

SB

Imm. Dept.

Mr Kim Salkeld Miss Annie Tam

Ms Joanne Foakes

Mr C. Newall

Mr John Hunter

Mr D. Skinner

Mrs J. Chok

ASNU, ESB

TIB

Adm. Wing, CSO

ILD

ILD

ILD

CAB

CAB

LO (IL)

and Mr

tabled copies of

correspondence

between himself

Ricketts of FCO and explained that the purpose

of the meeting was to take matters forward on the subject of UK/HKSAR agreements. The proposal was that a set of agreements (which would be close to the various model texts) should be negotiated and initialled between UK and HK, say, by the end of the year. These would be put to the Chinese side for agreement in the JLG at a suitable time thereafter (probably not before mid 1995). If content, the Chinese side would undertake to authorise the SARG to sign the initialled agreements on or shortly after 1 July 1997.

LO (IL) said that in the event that our proposal was not acceptable to the Chinese side, there would be other ways of proceeding, e.g., by turning the agreements into MOUS supported by reciprocal legislation. But these would, for obvious reasons, be less satisfactory.

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LO (IL) said that the intention was to undertake the relevant negotiations after JLG in September this year, if it was in London. If not, we could do it in December. The discussions were not expected to take too long. relevant HKG officials, if not already in London for the JLG, would need to fly out to join the discussions.

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Following discussion, it was agreed that the topics to be covered, the HKG officials who needed to be involved and the likely duration of negotiations should be as follows

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