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TRANSCRIPT B: FOREIGN SEC P.C. HONG KONG 16 JAN 90
FROM JAMES LEE FOR COI RADIO TECHNICAL SERVICES
TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCË
GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. DOUGLAS HÜRD,
IN HONG KONG,
ON TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 1990
TRANSCRIPT B
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(COPTIFUED FROM TRANSCRIPT A)
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QUESTION (AFP);
Have you or your delegates actually told the Chinese
beforehand your decision to bring in wore democracy in Hong Kong and
what was their response?
FOREICH SECRETARY:
Well they know that we intend to bring in more democracy in
Hong Kong - that is provided for in the Joint Declaration. There
has been no secret about that. The question is at what level you
start and how you continue. Those are the two important questions
and they know our thinking about that and they know because we have
represented to them the strength of feeling here.
I think it is very important that people in Hong Kong should
therelves take every opportunity to make these and similar points
in Peking. I was therefore very glad to read of the delegation
which has just returned to Hong Kong from Peking. I sat next to
one of its members as it happens today at a meal and I was glad that
they were received at a suitably high level by the Chinese Prime