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THE CHINESE AND PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENTS AGREED TO RENDER TO ONE.
MOTHER, ON THE BASIS OF EQUALITY AND RECIPROCAL. BENEFITS, EVERY: VECESSARY ASSISTANCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS, AS WELL AS THEIR OPERATIONS IN THE REPSECTIVE CAPITALS.' ENDS.
3. THE COMMUNIQUE THUS CONTAINS NO REFERENCE TO MACAU, IN HIS CRAL STATEMENT TO THE PRESS, MOTA PINTO SAID THAT THSESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND CHINA WAS " A TRANSLATION........ OF THE KNOWLEDGE, RESPECT AND INTERACTION OF THE TWO PEOPLES OVER MANY CENTURIES, RESULTING FROM OUR VOYAGES TO THE EAST, OF WHICH MACAU REMAINS AS AN ELOQUENT FACT''.
WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT MACAU MOTA PINTO SAID THAT ITS CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS IS NOT ALTERED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WITH CHINA',
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PS/ICED GORONWY ROBERTS FLYBUS
SIA A. DUFF
SIR A. FARSONS
SER R. EISBERT
ME CORRAZZI
MR MURRAY
MR FERGUSSON
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