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1985 May 2 - 1986 Oct 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1796
Hong Kong (Future of Hong Kong) (Part 18)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 215
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86 May 14 We Major Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Hong Kong: Proposed Visit by Unofficial Members of the Executive Council") [MT agrees to September meeting] [released Dec 2016]
86 Jul 17 Th Major Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Hong Kong: Future Position of the Governor") [MT agrees to retention of a British Governor until 1997, on condition that the retention is optional] [released Dec 2016]
86 Sep 9 Tu Major Hong Kong: FCO record of conversation ("Hong Kong: Call by the Governor and Members of the Executive Council") [Timothy Renton, Youde, ExCo: "controversy over the Daya Bay nuclear project... might cause some misgivings... in Peking... about the possible implications of introducing directly elected members into the... [Legislative Council] in 1988"; draft press release for MT's own meeting with Youde & UMELCO] [released Dec 2016]
86 Sep 9 Tu Major Hong Kong: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with ExCo") [Governor Youde & members of Executive Council] [released Dec 2016]
86 Sep 10 We Major Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Renton, Youde, Cradock, Executive Council members) [Hong Kong economy; functioning of the Legislative Council; drafting of the Basic Law; proposal for a Chief Executive to assume Governor's political role, to aid transition; Daya Bay nuclear power station] [released Dec 2016]
86 Sep 10 We Major Hong Kong: MT letter to S.Y. Chung (Prime Minister's meeting with members of the Executive Council) [sends well wishes on Chung's absence due to illness] [released Dec 2016]
86 Sep 24 We Major Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT ("Hong Kong: The Governor and the Chief Executive") [MT unimpressed by paper outlining proposed transition arrangements, and requests redraft for discussion in OD(K) committee] [released Dec 2016]
86 Sep 25 Th Major Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Hong Kong: The Governor and the Chief Executive") [MT unimpressed by Howe's proposed transition arrangements, and requests redraft for discussion in OD(K) committee] [released Dec 2016]
86 Oct 1 We Major Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Hong Kong: The Governor and the Chief Executive") [proposed transition arrangements: line to take for Howe's meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister] [released Dec 2016]
86 Oct 1 We Major Hong Kong: Peter Morrison MP letter to MT (Hong Kong: UK trade and inward investment) [criticism of UK/Hong Kong polices; Japanese investment in UK] [released Dec 2016]
86 Oct 13 Mo Major Hong Kong: FCO record of conversation (1646Z) (Howe, Ji Pengfei) [China's Head of Hong Kong & Macau Affairs Office: discussion of transition arrangements in run-up to 1997] [released Dec 2016]
86 Oct 20 Mo Major Hong Kong: Government of Hong Kong telegram 3465 to FCO (1200Z) ("Future of Hong Kong's monetary and financial system") [released Dec 2016]