would not have taken it?"
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The Joint Declaration is a good framework. But it
would be nonsense to pretend that the Agreement marks
the end of our problems. The challenge now is to turn
the Joint Declaration into reality. That means working
on matters of meticulous technical detail. It also
means negotiating firmly and tenaciously on matters of
principle. We are committed to this task. The recent
arrival in Hong Kong of the British Senior
Representative on the Joint Liaison Group,
Mr Galsworthy, is a further demonstration of this
commitment.
Neither the Joint Declaration, nor the work of the
Joint Liaison Group, can by themselves sustain
confidence in Hong Kong. That is why I announced on 20
December a package of measures designed to encourage
people in all walks of life in the community to remain
in the territory. This package is the result of a
considerable amount of work by the British Government,
in consultation with the Hong Kong Government. We have
done our best to devise a scheme which tackles as
fairly and effectively as possible the problem of
emigration of talented people from Hong Kong.
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