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A. ( Horley) The year 1979 hes official relevance, but one canot just
write it off. Everything would tun on the political relations between
the three erbers of the tripartite interest.
Q. We are only 20 years away. Is there no contingency planning for
events that may well occur in 1997? A. (ie Cheaffe) I think one would
start by an cpression of the Chinese Governments attitude to the problen.
This was given public expression in a letter of the 3th March 1972 fron
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the pornnent representative to the United Nations to the Chrimen' of the Sspecial Comittee on Decolonisation of the Soneral Assembly, and the rolevant
extract goes as follows:
and Macao belong to the category of questions resulting from the series
unlqual
muties of treaties left over by history which the imperialists inposed on China.
Hong Kong rnd lacao are part of Chinese temitory occupied by the British
and Portuguese authorities. The settlement of the questions of Hong Kong
and lacao is entirely within the Chindscovereign right, and does not at all
fall under the ordinary category of colonial teritories........With regard to the
questions of Hong Kong and laceo, the Chinese Government has consistently
held that they should be settled in an appropriate way when conditions 19 upe
"is is Imown to all, the questions of Hong Hong
right".
Romadagy
Q. If the Chinese do insist on the terms of the treaty that would mean
that all that territory north of Sealey Street would revert to the Republic,
but we understand from the Governor in Hong Kong, and we have had this
confirmed again today, that without the new territories Kowloon and Hong Kong
might just as well cease to exist because they will be unviable without the
new territories. In that case is it likely that if the Chinese insist on
the full implementation of the 1976 treaty, if that is the date, they may
as well take the whole of Hong Kong and not merely the new territories?
1. It follows for the statement that the Chinese representative nade
in the United Nations that they see no distinction between these treaties
under which Hong Kong was set up,
, end
nd frankly it is impossible at this
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