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HONG KONG PC 4 JULY 1989

FORBIGN SBCKBTARY:

To because they are European arrangements, and it gives

the opportunity of readdressing myself to the Far Eastern Economic

Review as long as he can listen to me patiently.

The European deal

16 providing for free movement all ways by 320 million people

throughout the Community.

lium and millions of KBritons travel to Spain for example

overy year, Currently Limra

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growing developing pattern of that

kind and that is something which we have been living with as a

commitment since 1972 providing for freedom of movement within one

geographical region

But the impact of an open-ended pledge to 3, 4, 5, 6 million

people in llong Long would be totally different from that because

they would be coming not just as migrauts for work matching Britich

migrants going round the rest of the Community, but as a ret

substantial addition of people coming to settle. That is the

differenca.

QUESTION (Steve Hines, Observer);

I am sure the people have said to you while you have been

here that British policy might create an anti-British backlash and

also indeed that the British administration might find it difficult

to goveru here. What is your response to those views?

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