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FOREIGN SBC BONG KONG
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4 JULY 1989
POREIGN &NCRETARY (CONT):
action but to act and to act on a sustained basis to try to erase
the damaging consequences of what happened there a month ago.
QUESTION (Sally Blythe, Radio Hong Kong);
You say that you will take into account the mood of the
changed atmosphere in Hong Kong when you go back to London but when
the British Cabinet is considering the proposals on nationality will
you perhaps be pushing for more radical alterations in the light of
your visit hore?
FOREIGE SECRETARY:
I do not disclose even in advance what I am going to say in
Cabinet. But I certainly have taken on board, as I think I had
already as a matter of fact, the extent of people's concern bere on
the right of abode question.
One thing that I can say is that the views of the people of
Hong Kong have been very effectively represented by the leaders of
Hong Kong's political establishment when they came to Britain a week
or two ago and they were made very clear to the members of the
Foreign Affairs Committee when they were here.
doubt about them, they have bean taken into account already.
So we are in no
QUESTION (Xias Blythe):
So what was the use of your visit if they have already been
taken into account?