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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
FROM JAMES LEE FOR COI RADIO TECHNICAL SERVICES
TRANSCRIPT OF MEETING OF
THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
IN LONDON, OF MONDAY,
OF MONDAY, 12 JUNE 1989
TRANSCRIPT C
(CONTINUED FROM TRANSCRIPT B)
MAA AM BANK DAN M
MR. MICHAEL VELSH;
Due to the recent trouble that we have seen in
China, do you not think now that you should re-negotiate
it to see if it could be possible not to have the Chinese
army stationed in Hong Kong?
Let me give you an example:
if I was living in
Hong Kong and they put the 27th in, I would be worried!
SIR DAVID WILSON:
Mr. Welsh, so would the people of Hong Kong!
This is one of the areas that I think we will have
to look at in the future,
I am not sure if it is a
straightforward question of negotiating to keep the PLA
out of Hong Kong because, as I mentioned before, under the
Joint Declaration they do have a right to station troops
there if they wish to do s0, but the decision is theirs.
But the need for intense sensitivity about how that right
is used is something which now must be self-apparent.