1983 Nov 1 - 1983 Dec 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1059
Hong Kong (Future of Hong Kong) (Part 10)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 412 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Nov 1 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (future of Hong Kong) [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 2 We | Major | Hong Kong: Loh letter to Coles (Hong Kong Observers) [presentation to Peking] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 3 Th | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Visit of Spanish Foreign Minister: Remarks on Hong Kong”) [“Questions of sovereignty and territorial integrity could not be open for discussion”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 7 Mo | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese Remarks to Thorn”) [“By putting an end to the colonialist era, Britain would enhance her reputation”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 7 Mo | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese Remarks to Thorn”) [“By putting an end to the colonialist era, Britain would enhance her reputation”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 8 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIT: Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Yao Guang”) [“Yao was generally defensive”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Major | Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Athens (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“the Chinese still suspect us of trying to engineer a ‘co-administration’ of Hong Kong after 1997”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Major | Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Ambassador’s meeting with Yao Guang”) [“I do not think we should let the Chinese rush us into further concessions”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Major | Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Major | Hong Kong: Armstrong minute to Coles (“JIC Assessments on Hong Kong”) [MT “does not wish the circulation list to be extended in this way”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 9 We | Major | Hong Kong: Heseltine minute to Howe (“RN Task Group Deployment to Hong Kong”) [“Cancellation of INVINCIBLE’s visit would come as a bitter disappointment”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 10 Th | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“premise that both sovereignty and the right of adminstration will pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 10 Th | Major | Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“the Chinese reacted reasonably favourably to the line which our negotiators took at the meeting on 19/20 October”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 11 Fr | Major | Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“need to clarify our present strategy and objectives”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 11 Fr | Major | Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Hong Kong: Development of the Governmental Structure”) [“there are growing signs of public interest in greater participation in the running of Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 11 Fr | Major | Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 12 Sa | Major | Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“the need to keep EXCO with us and to avoid giving the impression to them that we are giving away points too soon”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 14 Mo | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Plenary Round: First Day”) [Yao: “Hong Kong had always been Chinese territory”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 14 Mo | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round: First Day”) [“By and large this was a negative session”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 15 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round, Second Day: Comment”) [“This was a pretty bleak session”] [declassified 2013] |