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FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 27 October 1992
cc: Sir John Coles
Miss Saunders
Ms Everett, News
Dept
Mr Hum
HONG KONG: CALL FROM SIR PERCY CRADOCK
1.
I should record that Sir Percy Cradock telephoned today in the light of reports in the British press about his own role in exchanges with the Chinese in 1989/90 over constitutional development.
2.
Sir Percy asked what we were planning to publish and what line we would be taking. I went through this with him in some detail. He commented (reassuringly) that he thought our case would stand up.
3.
Sir Percy was particularly concerned that his own visit to Peking in December 1989 was being portrayed in the British press as a mission to stifle democratic development in Hong Kong. That was the reverse of the truth. He reminded me that his mission was the start of the process of ratchetting up the number of directly-elected seats for 1995. I told Sir Percy that none of the correspondence we were planning to publish related to his mission: and that if questions were raised in our press briefings about the purpose of his mission, we would make the point he had suggested.
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