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HONG KONG GENERAL CIAMBER OF COMMERCE 15 JANUARY 1990
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POREIGN SECRETARY (CONTD):
before the British people, before our colleagues in Parliament,
about Hong Kong, about the needs of Hong Kong, about the prospects
of Hong Kong.
When I talked about a "crude and ignorant caricature", 1, was
not actually thinking about the passport issue at all -
I was
thinking about the caricature which suggests that Hong Kong is
simply a matter of piling up money and I suggested that the Charity
Walk and the huge explusion of voluntary community work going on in
Hong Kong corrects that caricature, but that is just one point.
There are many other points about Hong Kong which we must get
across. by "e") mean certainly British Ministere, people who know
Hong Kong, British Members of Parliament who know Hong Kong, but
also yourselves. I think it is crucial, not just because of this
particular Bill but over the next year when there will be many
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difficult decisius to be taken, that the world British public
opinion, Americe public opinion
should get from you direct, from
the horse's mouth, clear accounts, visible wituess, of what is
actually happening here, what your plans are, what your hopes are
and what your trustrations are.
I think the question is an excellent one and I think it
behoves all of us Governor, Foreign Secretary, but also everybody
in this room to think of our own ways in which we can get through
more vividly and more accurately than before the true picture of
what Hong Kong in 1990 is really about.