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16 JAN 90
FOREIGH SECRETARY:
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Because I do not yet know if the best ay which I have
described is attainable,
When I know the answer to that question,
u will be ablo to tała a decision and I du not think that will be
very long.
QUESTION:
But how will you hear whether or not it is attainable?
POREIGH SECRETARY:
We will have to make a judgment as a result of what has been
said here, as a result of contacts with the People's Republic, as
to whether the best way is attainable. If it is not attainable
then we will have, as I have said, to take our own, the British and
Hong Kong Government's own decision in what we believe to be the
best interests of Hong Kong.
QUESTION:
So it is up to China to tell you whether or not it is
attainable?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
No it is ant.
Obviously if one is talking about a continued
progress after 1997 there are two parts of it one is before and
one is after.
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WE What is before is within our own decision,
have
to take a decision and that is not a matter which China dictates,
I
made that clear from the very beginning.