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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
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CHAIRMAN:
I think, Colleagues, we should just like some more
questions on the general point so if we may keep to the
general issue, could I just put one myself in from the
Chair!
You keep speaking, Sir David, about the
Do you
responsibility on Britain. Do you think that is a
responsibility that Britain could reasonably seek to share
with other members of the international community.
think there is a broader responsibility for ensuring that
Hong Kong does not, as it were, die of fright?
SIR DAVID WILSON ;
Chairman, yea I do!
are
There are two stages of this: one is the present
and the need for reassurance, and there I think Britain
does have à particular position because what we
talking about are people who hold British passports
British Hong Kong passports of various Borts.
responsibility could be more widely shared, then I would
sée no problem about that from the Hong Kong end.
But if that
If one is looking at the second stage of all this,
just a reassurance that if everything went badly wrong
the Armageddon scenario - that in those circumstances the people of Hong Kong as a whole would be looked after, then
} can see that that could well be and quite rightly could
well be a wider international responsibility.