FROM
FOREIGN SEC:
SPRRCH
HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCI 15 JANUARY 1990
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QUESTION:
(Extremely difficult to understand, but question regarding
continued British interest in Hong Kong after 1997)
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
One of the points I have been trying to make today is that
our interest in Hong Kong will not cease in 1997. I am not talking
about the Joint Declaration; I am talking about our sympathies,
our involvement and our energy and one of the poiuts I was trying to
make is the back-up, the build-up, which we propose for our
representation here.
I think it will be a matter of natural interest as well as
sympathy that throughout this decade and for a long long time - for
ever I hope there will be a substantial continuing Britisb
interest and sympathy with Hong Kong.
QUESTION:
Ir. Foreign Secretary, three years ago there was some
expectation here that there might be a 100 percent directly-elected
legislature.
It is possible to converge from that direction with
China as well. Why can this not be done?
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