1990-01-16 15:22 COI RADIO TECH SERVICES.
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לחת יד
FORRIGE
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民
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HUNG BURG 16 JAN VU
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
I think I have already anspered, as far as I can, the
questions about the state of the qraft Basic Law. ve are not
negotiators round that table, we have taken opportunities and will
continue so long as that is possiḥle, to express our viewa
privately about the content of the Law and we have taken the
opportunity to express to the Chinese certain opinions which we
have forwarded because we have received them from here.
QUESTION:
Do you
Do you view your trip as a successful PR exercise?
think that is a fair judgment and what are the main priorities that
you will carry back to London?
PORRIGE SECRETARY:
It is a bard life, is it not? If you do not see the media,
if you dash past them at all the street corners where you have
collected in the rain sometimes, if you do all that you are accused
of being haughty, arrogant, and neglectful.
If you do pause and
answer questions at every street corner you are told you are on a
PR trip!
I have long ago learned you cannot win in these exchanges, I
have tried to do my best and I will carry back to London a lot of
very specific opinions which are obviously much more vivid if they
are expressed to you directly, a lot of very specific opinions, not
all of them harmonious, not all of them the same, but also au