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PROVIDED BY THE PRESENT BRITISH ADMINISTRATION.
6.
MOREOVER
I ALSO SAID THAT WE HOPED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THROUGH
YOU MATERIAL TO BRIEF MR HAYDEN FURTHER BEFORE HIS FORTHCOMING
VISIT TO PEKING. IN ANSWER TO A FURTHER QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE
AUSTRALIANS MIGHT DO TO HELP, I COMMENTED THAT A MESSAGE WE WANTED
TO GET ACROSS TO THE CHINESE WAS THAT BRITAIN DID NOT MAKE A
PROFIT FROM HONG KONG OR EXPLOIT IT IN ANY WAY: WE WERE
INTERESTED IN THE WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.
WE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT ANY ARRANGEMENTS WOULD WORK UNLESS THERE
WAS SOME GUARANTEE AGAINST CHINESE INTERFERENCE AFTER 1997
OF THE KIND WHICH THE PRESENT BRITISH ADMINISTRATION PROVIDED.
7.
ON PARAGRAPH 2 OF TUR, I AM MYSTIFIED BY THE REFERENCE
TO REMONSTRATION BY ME TO AN UNNAMED AUSTRALIAN INTERLOCUTOR.
HAD NOT (REPEAT NOT) RAISED THE SUBJECT HERE WITH ANY AUSTRALIAN
DIPLOMAT. IN THE COURSE OF THE TALK WITH ROBERTSON,
HOWEVER, HAYDEN'S PRESS CONFERENCE
CAME UP AND I CONFIRMED THAT YOU HAD
I
SPOKEN TO THE FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT IT. ROBERTSON SAID THAT HE
HAD SEEN AN ACCOUNT OF THIS. HAYDEN HAD NOT EXPRESSED 'CONTRITION
IN HIS TALK WITH YOU: HE HAD EXORESSED 'REGRET' IF HIS REMARKS HAD LED TO ANY MISUNDERSTANDINGS PARTICULARLY FROM HIS USE OF THE
WORD TRANSITION'.
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