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1983 Nov 1 - 1983 Dec 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1059
Hong Kong (Future of Hong Kong) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 412
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83 Dec 12 Mon Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“concern about where the present course of action is leading”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 16 Fri Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: ‘Umelco’”) [“It was a tense and in some parts emotional meeting”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 29 Thu Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [draft EXCO paper] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 30 Fri Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Submission to Ministers - Working Paper on Future Security”) [“The Security issue has come to the fore earlier than anticipated”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tue Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Peking TelNo 1325 Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Leaders”) [“more should be made of the need to maintain domestic and international confidence if stability and prosperity are to be preserved”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 12 Sat 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 Dec 2 Fri Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: Next Session of Talks”) [“The Chinese request to receive the rest of the working papers quickly is interesting”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 14 Wed Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong Calls on Leaders”) [“Note with pleasure the progress made in the latest phase of negotiations”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mon Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong Calls”) [“There was no request from the Chinese side for explicit affirmation of the premise that sovereignty and the right of administration over Hong Kong would pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 15 Thu Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence and Internal Security”) [“questions directly relating to defence have been raised for the first time”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 23 Fri Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [proposed paper “examining the scope for increasing internal self-government in Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 23 Fri Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong”) [papers for OD(K) meeting] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 22 Thu Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (reports on Robin McLaren) [MT “felt that the number of reports made it incumbent on the Government to make thorough inquiries”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 22 Thu Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [proposed paper by Youde to EXCO] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 30 Fri Hong Kong: Butler minute to Coles (Robin McLaren) [approach to Lord Cromer’s son] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 15 Tue Hong Kong: Coles minute to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [Observers delegation to Peking] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 16 Wed Hong Kong: Coles note to MT (“Tomorrow’us Meeting on Hong Kong”) [“will be about negotiating tactics and I do not think any financial issues will arise”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tue Hong Kong: Coles letter to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [conversation with Lee Kuan Yew] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 14 Wed Hong Kong: Coles minute to Ricketts (“Future of Hong Kong: Sir Percy Cradock’s calls on Chinese Leaders”) [instructions to Cradock] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 21 Wed Hong Kong: Coles letter to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [“the Prime Minister has noted from recent telegrams that the Chinese are reluctant to envisage progress towards democratic institutions in Hong Kong before 1997”] [declassified 2013]