:
PRONORLAT PROFOREIGN EXPARKS PEKING HONGKONG SEVEN PICKUP
ACCOMPANY YOUDE PARA.
THESE NEGOTIATIONS WERE R PRECEDED OVER THE PAST NINE MONTHS
RY EXPLORATORY TALKS IN WHICH PRITAIN AND CHINA LAID OUT THEIR
GENERAL VIEW OF THE HONG KONG QUESTION AND HOW IT MIGHT BE
RESOLVED. PARA
QUOTE DRITAIN AND CHINA HAVE ALREADY ACHIEVED A BETTER
UNQUNTE YOUDE SAID
UNDERSTANDING OF SACH OTHER'S POSITIONS,
IN HONG KONG LAST WEEK,
QUOTE BÚT I WON'T RPT WON'T SPECULATO
ON DETAILS (PARENS OF A POSSIBLE AGREEMENT ON THE COLONY'S
FUTURE UNPARENS).
MOTH SIDES ARE LOOKING FOR A SETTLEMENT
CHINA AND THE PEOPLE OF
THAT WILL RE ACCEPTABLE TO PRITAIN,
HONG KONG.
UNQUATE PARA
CHINESE SOURCES HAD SAID,
HOWEVER, THAT THOSE DISCUSSIONS
HAD DECOME DEADLOCKED OVER THE SOVEREIGNTY ISSUE. DURING A VISIT
TO HONG KONG LAST SEPTEMBER,
PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER
HAD INSISTED THAT PHITAIN'S TREATIES WITH CHINA IN THE 19TH RPT
NINETEENTH CENTURY REM,INED VALID IN INTERNATIONAL LAW,
AND
"RITISH INSISTENCE OF AT LEAST PARTIAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER HONG KONG,
ALREIT AS A BARGAINING CHIP, LED TO AN IMPASSE AS PEKING DEMANDED
THAT ALL SOVIREIGNTY VE REUOUNCED.
A LETTER FROM THATCHER TO
CLEARED AWAY
PREMIER ZHAO ZIYAIR APT ZHA9 ZIYANG KEPORTEDLY
THIS EST.CLE. PAL MORE PARKS
OTHE
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