TNAG-2987-FCO40-3573-Future-of-Hong-Kong-constitutional-development-talks-betwee-1992 — Page 23

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From the Private Secretary

Sp. Advisers

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Dear Resident Clerk

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pn. Ching and passed to mi Prentice

mr Ricketts is looking

at the telegramms and will call the

today.

Ps later

K. Johnson 3/10 12.15.

3 October 1992

Spoke to Mr Prentice

No futter tie

HONG KONG

Christopher Patten telephoned the Prime Minister this morning and gave him a guarded account of Chinese reaction to 0. his constitutional proposals.

The Prime Minister said that he would study the telegrams but that his instinct was not to budge an inch in the face of Chinese pressure.

Yours sincerely

R.highan

pp.

J S WALL

The Resident Clerk

Foreign and Commonwealth office

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