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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 9 Fri Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIPT: Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“an unusual opportunity to put our views directly to the people in decision-making positions”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 7 Mon 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 3 Thu 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 Mon 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 Tue 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 Wed 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 10 Thu 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 11 Fri Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“need to clarify our present strategy and objectives”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 14 Mon 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 Mon 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 Tue Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round, Second Day: Comment”) [“This was a pretty bleak session”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 15 Tue Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round, Second Day: Comment”) [“They repeated their objections to discussing detail”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 16 Wed Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round”) [“The Chinese returned repeatedly to the importance of the issues of principle”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 16 Wed Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese leaders”) [“would be a logical step”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 16 Wed Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Future Tactics”) [“This has been a discouraging session. In the light of it the road ahead looks even bleaker than we had envisaged”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 17 Thu Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Future Tactics”) [“The Chinese are deeply and immovably entrenched on sovereignty and administration”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 17 Thu Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Consultation with EXCO”) [“The Council was in a very sober mood”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 17 Thu Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Consultation with EXCO”) [“we must ensure that the formula we use is as unambiguous as we can make it”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Dinner with Yao Guang”) [“Our mutual understanding had been enhanced”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 7 Wed Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 7th Round, First Day: Comment”) [“perhaps the most positive session so far”] [declassified 2013]