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BBC P4 PROGRAMY NE
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31 JULY OD
INTERVIEVER:
Can you offer Hong Kong any hope that the British policy on
the right of abode will be more flexible than under your
predecessor?
FORRIGE SECRETARY:
I think my predecessor made the policy fairly clear. I wish
to examine the general position of Hong Kong to see what can be done
to help, but I am making no dramatic pronouncements of that sort at
the moment.
INTERVIEWER:
Who else have you been meeting here? You saw Ir.
Shevardnadze yesterday.
POPHIGI SECRETARY:
day;
I met Ir. Shevardnadze briefly; I met Mr. Baker during the
I met a large number of Foreign Ministers, largely to say
"Hallo!" and generally to get to know one another.
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