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LEUNG CHAU-YIN (ATV): MR MAUDE, YOU SAID A MOMENT AGO THAT JOHN MAJ AND YOURSELF COMPRISE A NEW TEAM AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE. DOES THA MEAN THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WILL CHANGE ITS POLICY TOWARDS HONG KONG? MY SECOND QUESTION IS RELATED TO AN EARLTER STATEMENT YOU MADE. THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CANNOT PROVIDE THE RIGHT OF ABODE TO ALL IN HONG KONG. WHEN DELEGATIONS FROM HONG KONG WENT TO UN TO LOBBY FOR THAT PURPOSE IT
WAS MADE CLEAR THAT THERE WOULD BE DIVISIVE EFFECTS IF ONLY SOME PEOPLE WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT OF ABODE. SC. IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT YOU HAVE SAID. ARE YOU REALLY IGNORING THE POINT THAT THERE WILL BE DIVISIVE EFFECTS"
MR MAUDE: WELL. I THINK IT IS CLEARLY THE CASE THAT IF YOU GIVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE TO SOME AND NOT TO OTHERS THEN THERE ARE DISTINCTIONS BEING MADE BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THAT IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE FACT WHICH HAS TO BE FACED - AND THERE IS NO DODGING THAT NO FUDGING IT THAT HAS TO HAPPEN. AND IT
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IS A DIFFICULT
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THERE'S PROCESS.
WHICH IS WHY IT IS TAKING US SOME TIME TO WORK OUT HOW TO DO IT. BUT THAT IS IMPLICIT IN HAVING A SCHEME OF THIS SORT AT ALL. AND. WE WANT TO GET THAT PACKAGE RIGHT AND TO GET IT AS GOOD AS IT CAN BE AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE WORKING 30 HARD AT IT.
LEUNG CHAU-YIN:
AND HOW ABOUT THE FIRST QUESTION?
MR MAUDE: WELL. THERE IS NO POINT AT WHICH ON ANY ISSUE POLICY IS FORMULATED AND ENCASED IN ICE AND REMAINS THE SAME FOREVER.
ND. POLICY IS ALWAYS DEVELOPING AS NEW ISSUES ARISE. AS NEW EVELOPMENTS TAKE PLACE AND, OF COURSE, POLICT IS DEVELOPING. THERE IS GOING TO BE NO RADICAL SHIFT OF POLICY AS A RESULT OF TWO NEW INISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR HONG KONG. BUT. AS I HAVE SAID, WE COME TO
NPW AND WE COME TO IT FRESH.
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CAN I ASK YOU WHETHER
JOHN PALMER (THE GUARDIAN):
YOUR RIEF VISIT IN YOUR DISCUSSIONS WITH HONG KONG INDUSTRIALISTS THE ROBLEMS EXPERIENCED WITH EUROPEAN ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES AND GENERAL EARS OF FORTRESS EUROPE EMERGED OR NOT. AND WHETHER YOL HAD NYTHING TO TELL THEM ABOUT THAT. AND SECONDLY. WHETHER YOU A E 1 LANNING TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF RIGHT OF ABODE SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE
NOPEAN COMMUNITY CONTEXT SINCE
COURSE PORTUGAL IS ADMITTING GNIFICANT NUMBERS OF MACAUANS TO PORTUGAL. WHO WILL HAVE THE RIGHT FABODE IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY"
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MR MAUDE: WELL, ON THE FIRST ISSUE, NO. I AM BOUND TO IT ONE OF THE ISSUES RAISED WITH ME IN THE COURSE OF THE LAST TWO TS HAS NOT BEEN EC ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES. NO DOUBT IF I STAYED HERE A TTLE LONGER IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. IT WAS RAISED WITH ME. I'M BOUND TO Y. A YEAR AGO. WHEN I WAS HERE AS TRADE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER WITH E PARTICULAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR NEGOTIATING THE SINGLE EUROPEAN RKET. WE HAVE HAD CONCERN FOR
LITTLE TIME ABOUT ANTI-DUMPING TIES BEING CAPABLE OF BEING USED A PROTECTIONIST MANNER.
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1 THINK E NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION WHICH TOCK OFFICE IN JANUARY THIS TEAR KES A MORE LIBERAL APPROACH TO THESE MATTERS. WHICH IS WELCOME TO
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