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JAMES LEE
TRANSCRIPT B FOREIGN SECRETARY FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATI ON
QUESTION (GREEK TV):
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SPEECH AND Q&A
LONDON
30 NOVEMBER 1992
MAS 0342/6
P.P. 1
Pr/Mr Goodta Mr Humm (153) Mr Rickett, H Mr Janied it
CC: Mr Handen, GH. Mr Omborne, BC,
Have you made any progress on the problem of the former Republic MrChan,
of Macedonia and is this issue going to be discussed on the agenda
at the Edinburgh summit?
Chura angle
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
I think it will be discussed in one way or another though at what level I am not sure. I am receiving today, I believe, the report of Ambassador O' Neale whom I asked to try and find an acceptable compromise on this and who has shuttled between Athens and skopje
I have not yet read his report. trying to do that.
We will try and make some progress on this though the difficulties remain and were clearly illustrated to my Prime Minister when he visited Prime Minister Mitsotakis in Athens on Friday and
Saturday.
QUESTION (W. K. FOONO):
Secretary of State, what is your response to the announcement by the State Department of Hong Kong & Macao Affairs that all the Contracts and agreements signed by Britain without consulting the Chinese Government before 1997 would be invalid after 1997?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
We are holding faithfully and to the letter of the agreements that the Joint Declaration, the Airport we have negotiated with China: Agreement, the Memorandum of Understanding on the airport agreed
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