necessary to look at the situation in a new light, and tore tre to decido
that we could no longer maintain a gemison, my guess is that Felting would
then feel duty bound to change the status of Hong Kong and perhaps produce
what we normally call a lacao byme situation. We would mofen to avoid that
but we can only avoid that if we give then no pretext for change.
CHATRIMAN: We do not want the Minister to go into too much detail. Are
there any
more questions of major moment? Then it is for me to thank
you very much for coning. We think you have a very good agreement. I hope
it goes well, and I hope that if they are paying a major part of the bill.
they will not try to demand too much.
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