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QUESTION (CBC NEWS)
In view of your next stop, what would you like the
United States to do to either help or support this Agreement?
PRIME MINISTER
The United States has already welcomed the Agreement
I believe that they
and so have a number of other countries.
will express their faith in that Agreement by just carrying on
the kind of investment and confidence that they have already
shown in Hong Kong and it is vital that they and many other
countries do so, and I believe that that will happen.
QUESTION
Can I return back to the question of the Joint Liaison
Group? The reason given for not having Hong Kong people representatives sitting in the Group is said because it is a diplomatic body, but can you tell us why the Joint Liaison Group has to be a diplomatic body in the first hand?
PRIME MINISTER
It is an inter-government agreement.
That is to say,
it is an agreement signed by China and Great Britain, and that is the main reason. Therefore, it will have on it 5 people from each government, or 5 people nominated by each government, and there will be Hong Kong Government officials among that
5 and, of course, as until now, the concerns of Hong Kong
But the real reason people will be fully taken into account.
is that it is an inter-governmental agreement.