VISIT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PEKING
PUBLIC PRESENTATION
BULL POINTS
Hong Kong Matters
Under the MOU signed by the Prime Minister and
Chinese Premier, agreed that Chinese Foreign Minister and I should meet twice a year. I have said earlier that before arranging the next meeting there would need to be reasonable prospect of it being useful. Chinese Foreign Minister has said
much the same.
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Governor has been in London take stock of where we
have got to in the talks with China on electoral
issues with PM and other Ministers.
Governor has proposed, and we agree, that enough progress made in Peking talks for it to make sense
for me and Chinese Foreign Minister to meet. Chinese agree.
So I will take advantage of being
in the region to go to Peking briefly, on 8 and 9
July.
I will not be going to negotiate or to tie up
agreement.
Talks not at that stage. But they have
already been going on for seven rounds. We do not
have infinite time. I want to ensure that the
Chinese side are clear about our essential
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