QUESTION:
H.E.:
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HOW LONG WILL THE SECOND ROUND OF TALKS LAST AND AT THE END OF THE TALKS WILL THERE BE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT MADE?
1 CAN'T PREDICT THAT AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, WE'RE ONLY JUST STARTING THEM ON TUESDAY, SO I THINK IT WOULD BE FOOLISH OF ME TO PREDICT HOW LONG THE NEXT PHASE WOULD LAST.
QUESTION:
H.E.:
THE TALKS ARE ONLY FOR ONE DAY, RIGHT?
J
NO, NO, IT ISN'T ONLY A ONE-DAY EVENT, THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW PHASE AND I WOULD EXPECT TO BE GOING FROM TIME TO TIME.
QUESTION: IS THE PROBLEM OF FINDING AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION
H.E.:
AS DIFFICULT AS IT EVER WAS SIR EDWARD, OR DO 30TH SIDES NOW HAVE A MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EACH OTHER'S POSITION?
I THINK THAT DURING THE FIRST PHASE EACH SIDE HAS ACHIEVED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EACH OTHER'S POSITION.
QUESTION:
H.E.:
DO YOU KNOW WHETHER MRS THATCHER MAY LATER THIS YEAR VISIT BEIJING AND WHEN, AND WHETHER RICHARD LUCE WILL BE JOINING THE TALKS?
I'M NOT EXPECTING A VISIT BY THE PRIME MINISTER TO PEKING. RICHARD LUCE SAID IN HIS MESSAGE TO US THAT HE WAS HOPING TO COME EARLY AND WE'VE HAD A TALK WITH HIM ABOUT WHEN HE MIGHT COME, AND I THINK HE'LL BE WITH US PROBABLY IN THE EARLY AUTUMN,
QUESTION:
H.E.:
IT IS SAID THAT YOU ARE GOING TO MEET WITH XU JIATUN BEFORE LEAVING FOR PEKING, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BE TALKING WITH HIM ABOUT AT THAT TIME?
WELL, SINCE I'M LEAVING ON MONDAY THERE ISN'T VERY MUCH TIME. WE MIGHT GET IN A COURTESY CALL, BUT I WOULDN'T EXPECT TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIVE MEETING BEFORE 1 GO, BUT WOULD OF COURSE BE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING HIM AT SOME LATER STAGE AFTER I GET BACK FROM PEKING.