FAGF FIVE PERØØ88 CONFD
INVESTORS PROTECTED UNQUOTE,ALL GUARANTEED BY SPECIAL LAW UNDER
ARTICLE OF PRC CONSTITUTION REGARDING SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE
REGIONS).IN TALKS WITH PM,ZHAO ALSO CONFIRMED THAT BY END OF 1984
CFINA WOULD ANNOUNCE DEFINITIVELY WHAT FUTURE STATUS CF HKCNG WOULD
BE, ALONG LINES NEGOTIATED WITH UK IF POSSIBLE, BUT UNILATERALLY IF
NEGOTIATIONS FAILED. IN PARL ADDRESS,ZHAO IN FACT EXPRESSED
CONFIDENCE THAT NEGOTIATIONS WOULD SUCCEED; WHEN QUESTIONED AT PRESS
CONF ON THIS OPTIMISM, PREMIER REFUSED TO GIVE SPECIFIC REASONS, BUT
STATED HE HAD CONCRETE GRCUNDS BASED ON PROGRESS DURING LAST PHASE
OF SINO-UK TALKS.ANOTHER PRESS QUESTION PROBED WHETHER HKONG AND
TAIWAN SITUATIONS WERE LINKFD; ZHAO AGREED THEY WERE, ADDING THAT ALL
POLICIES APPLIED TO HKONG WOULD BE APPLIED TO TAIWAN AND THEN SOME,
AS PART OF DRIVE FOR EARLY PEACEFUL REUNIFICATION OF BOTH REGIONS
WITH PRC.
6.KOREA.THIS QUESTION WAS DISCUSSED DURING 17JAN EXPANDED MTGS AND
ALSO WE UNDERSTAND OVER DINNER THAT EVENING.ASKED TO DESCRIBE PKC
POSITION,ZHAO EMPHASIZED THAT CHINA SHARED OTHER COUNTRIES DESIRE
FOR PEACE AND STABILITY ON KOREAN PENINSULA,ADDING THAT IN HIS VIEW
DPRK WOULD ALSO AVOID CONFRONTATION FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE IN
ORDER TO FREE RESOURCES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.HE CONFIRMED THAT
PRC HAD DISCUSSED KOR/N PROPOSAL FOR TRIPARTITE TALKS (KOR/N, USA,
KOR/S)WITH PRES REAGAN NOTING THAT WHILE USA HAD IN FACT CRIGINATED
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TRIPARTITF IDEA,WITH PRC ACTING AS MESSENGER TO PYONGYANG, THERE WAS
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