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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
29 October 1980
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Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Lord Privy Seal, whether Her Majesty's Government accepts the stated position of the Chinese government that the Treaties concerning the status of Hong Kong are invalid and not binding on China.
Her Majesty's Government's view of the status of Hong Kong
was set out in a letter addressed by the United Kingdom
Permanent Representative to the United Nations to the
United Nations Secretary-General of the 14th of December 1972.
JAS