DEC 31 '85 18:00 GIS HK
Date:
Time:
Reporter:
30.12.85
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10.45 a.m.
RG/29
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you said, no you wouldn't, and then you said it was a leading question.
Do you still mean you won't change it or alter it in any way?
Well, I think the question is full
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how the Review, and what appears in the Green Paper, has evolved. It
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assumes that there is complete lack of the exchange of views about the development and system, so that as I say, a kind of confrontational situation has developed, and I personally don't see that kind of
confrontational situation developing. I see an evolution of our system in Hong Kong, and an evolution of ideas about how the system should develop. I don't see this damaging confrontational situation.
That's why I answered it in that way.
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Happily, you are hoping that by the
time the Green Paper comes out it will have views which will suit every side. The Basic Law people, the Hong Kong, own efforts to
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of everybody's views and therefore nobody will be able to object to it, 20 but there could be a situation where there are certain aspects of the
Green Paper which the Chinese side may not like. And if that is the case, and they say, right we don't like this, that, or the other, it could be a minute thing, a very small problem, will you then say, right we are responsible until 1997 therefore we will not change it? I mean you have been saying that all morning, that the British are 26 in charge until 1997, and therefore would that view prevail?
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There would have to be an exchange
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of views, that is what I am saying.
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So you are saying that you would
consider changing the Green Paper?
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No, I am saying that we would then.
have to exchange views. The two Governments would have to exchange
views.
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