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TRANSCRIPT D: FOREIGN SEC P.C. HONG KONG
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16 JAN 90
QUESTION:
You said that many people have urged upon you the course of
making an announcement just for 1991 and leaving the rest up in thê
Can you say how many people and who they have been?
air.
POREIGA SECRETARY:
I did not say many people"; I said the point had been put
to me and I cannot actually remember by whom, but certainly I do
remember, I think in the course of today, it being said:
-Vell, why
don't you just make an announcement for 1991?" but we have not
reached a conclusion about that and I would not want to give you the
impression that it was a favoured option, but in answer to your
colleague I said that obviously it was an option which we had not as
yet excluded.
PAUL HARRINGTON (HONG KONG STANDARD) :
Mr. Hurd, you have said it may be possible for Britain to
make a unilateral decision on the pace of democratic reforms for
Up until when do you think such decisions will be possible
for Britain concerning Hong Kong?
1991.
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
I think it will always be possible to do that. That
possibility of course exists and we may well have to exercise it.