DEC 31 '85 17:50 GIS HK
Date:
Time:
30.12.85
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10.45 a.m.
Reporter:
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There are many, many, other means of
expression of opinion in Hong Kong, and opinion develops in Hong Kong,.
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process.
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But do you feel that you now need
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development in Hong Kong?
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I think there has to be a constructive
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exchange of views.
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must be an exchange of views.
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But you said earlier clearly there
Merely an exchange of views? Or do you, like the gentleman over there said, need their permission? Can you clarify the two?
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We have stressed I think, and both
the Governments of Britain and China have stressed that Britain is
responsible for Hong Kong's administration until 1997. The Hong Kong
Government, the British Government, will have to make decisions about
the development of Hong Kong in this interim period. Britain is
responible.
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on the basis of what China likes?
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But will you be making these decisions
The Hong Kong system has to develop
in conformity with the Joint Declaration, and both countries are
concerned to see that it does. We mustn't lose sight of the Joint
Declaration. And both countries have an interest in the development
of the system in Hong Kong so that it develops in conformity with the
Joint Declaration. So that Hong Kong, by 1997, will exercise a high degree of autonomy within the framework of the Joint Declaration.
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