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FOREIGN SECRETARY
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inevitable and right and it would be quite wrong to suppose that
Britain and China can sort these things out without a discussion
in Hong Kong. But the CRC point, I think they accepted that much,
but they also said it was important to have a discussion between
Britain and China in order to guarantee the through train or to
guarantee continuity. We accept that that is desirable, we
believe it can be achieved.
QUESTION:
they say that Britain has to accept all those understandings
reached by the two governments?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
There is a disagreement about that, I am very clear about what the
understanding was and what it was not, there was no understanding
about the functional constituencies whatever, we believe that the
Governor's proposals on both the election committee and the
functional constituencies are within the Basic Law. There is a
disagreement about that so that is one of the things that needs to
be discussed. But our emphasis is certainly looking to the future
and I believe that is so on all sides.
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