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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 61 - 80 of 84
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Dec 14 We | Major | 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 15 Th | Major | 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 15 Th | Major | Hong Kong: Cromer letter to MT (proposed talks with his son) [negotiating position] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 16 Fr | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Lunch with Yao Guang”) [“We needed to speed up our discussions on arrangements after 1997”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 16 Fr | Major | 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 19 Mo | Major | Hong Kong: Heseltine minute to Howe (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence and Internal Security”) [“we must firmly resist any suggestion that Chinese troops should be sanctioned in Hong Kong after 1997”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei: Chinese Garrison”) [“it would be impossible to send troops without publicity”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [new Territories Council] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei”) [Ji: “the first government of the SAR might be produced by consultation rather than election”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Ji Pengfei”) [“On detail, there were some signs of a disposition to compromise”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhao Ziyang”) [“the Chinese side were willing to discuss anything with us so long as their basic principles were not infringed”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“it would now be possible and necessar to expedite the pace of discussions so as to lead to agreement at an early date”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“Zhao said that one aspect of China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong would be China’s right to station troops there”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | 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] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | Hong Kong: Roger Henning to Martin Berthoud (the situation) [“every member of the Chinese business community in Hong has a differing opinion”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 21 We | Major | Hong Kong: Hong Kong observers’s paper (Sino-British talks) [as given to Chinese Government] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 22 Th | Major | 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 Th | Major | Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [proposed paper by Youde to EXCO] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 23 Fr | Major | 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 Fr | Major | Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong”) [papers for OD(K) meeting] [declassified 2013] |