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TO IMMEDIATE PEKING
TELNO 790
OF 061836Z OCTOBER 92
INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
OUR TELNO 786: HONG KONG: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. AS EARLIER AGREED HUM (AUSS) ASKED THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO CALL ON 6 OCTOBER. THE ADVANCE COPY OF THE GOVERNOR'S LEGCO ADDRESS HAD NOT BY THEN ARRIVED: BUT THE TEXT WAS DELIVERED BY MESSENGER TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY LATER IN THE DAY. HUM GAVE MA THE TEXT OF THE GOVERNOR'S FURTHER MESSAGE TO LU PING.
2. HUM TOOK MA THROUGH THE TEXT AND MADE IN ADDITION THE POINTS IN TUR, EMPHASISING THAT THESE HAD BEEN APPROVED BY MINISTERS. HE ADDED THAT WHEN THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSALS WERE MADE PUBLIC IN LONDON WE HAD NO DOUBT THAT THEY WOULD ATTRACT CRITICISM FROM A QUITE DIFFERENT ANGLE. SOME MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND SOME OF THE MEDIA WOULD NO DOUBT CRITICISE THEM ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE GOVERNOR HAD NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH AND THAT MARTIN LEE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT ONTO EXCO. HE HOPED THE AMBASSADOR WOULD ENSURE THAT THIS DIMENSION WAS UNDERSTOOD IN PEKING.
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