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Governments will be devoted to maintaining
Hong Kong as an attractive place for people to
make their lives, and to providing for a
future to which they can look forward with
confidence.
The Joint Declaration provides a detailed and
comprehensive framework for this. The Basic
Law must now turn this into reality, and in a
way which meets the concerns of Hong Kong
people. As I observed earlier, this places a
heavy responsibility on the Chinese
Government. I am confident that they will
fully discharge this responsibility.
British Government, as co-signatories of the
Joint Declaration, will play our full part in
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