PORBIGE BKC HONG KONG PRESS CONFERBICB
FORBIGE SECRETARY (CONTD>:
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31 MAY 1988
I think the key thing is for us to continue that is the
British Government the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese
Government
working as we have been doing to maintain the whole
range of factors recognised in the Joint Declaration, being
translated into the Basic Law, which set llong Kong a million light-
yearm from Vietnam and thank Heaven for that!
QUESTION (SAXE KAW):
Bir, you have not explained why as many people should be
leaving Hong Kong au aro leaving Vietnam, despite the difference in
the climate that you say exists.
FORRIGE SECRETARY:
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I should have thought, with respect, that that question
acarcely needs exposition. People leave Vietnam under the
compul
ulsion of economic policies of the utmost folly, facing the
utmost hardship to do it. People leave Hong Kong now as they
have done in all the years past and come back to it, travelling to
and from one of the world's moet dramatically successful economies
and anyone who seeks to force any kind of comparison out of that parallel I think is misleading himself and you have had two goes at the question. I do not think you can put it any better next time.
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