TRANSCRIPT C PORRIGE SRC HONG KONG PC 4 JULY 1080
ROPRICE SECRETARY:
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change that. The fact that it is as close as it is underlines the
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tragedy involved in what happened in Paking a month ago.
have to start from where we are and we shall have to press all the
points I have outlined and impress them at every possible
opportunify on China.
I do not just mean draw their attention to it, one bās tu tuy
and secure the understanding of those who currently rule China and
of those who may replace them. But if they dream of achieving the
prospect of Hong Kong returning to China's greater sovereignty with
anything like its present stability and prosperity, then they have
got to addroms homeclves with the uimet serîuususes in a whoïe
agenda, which I cannot sketch now, and alongside we seek to mobilise
world opinion as widely au ms possibly can.
The fact that the Joint Declaration was registered at the
United Nations as a joint agreement between two Permanent Members of
the Security Council maps that we have tu cum imci to that time
and time agala. If Paking seeks lu secure and mintain a position
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in any sense compatible with that role, then they have to address
themselves to this agenda continuously and energetically.
QUESTION:
Sir Geoffrey, you said that people had confidence in the
Joint Declaratiun, yet 60,000 people migrate out of Hong Kong every
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year. These are the dream of Hong Kong and do not join you in
having confidenco in a Joint Declaration.