चं

MONDAY, MAY 30, 1988

PROBLEMS

BE

KEPT

IN

ΤΟ NEEDED HOWEVER, HE EMPHASISED THAT PERSPECTIVE AGAINST THE WIDER PICTURE OF REMARKABLE SUCCESS.

AS

IN THE SEEK A

CONCLUDING, SIR GEOFFREY SAID HE REALISED THAT NOW PAST SOME HONG KONG PEOPLE WERE CHOOSING TO MOVE ELSEWHERE TO

NATIONALITY, AND NEW HOME, OR EVEN IN SOME CASES TO SEEK A DIFFERENT A NUMBER WERE ALSO RETURNING TO THE TERRITORY.

HE FELT THAT THERE SHOULD NOT ВЕ UNDUE ALARM OVER THESE MOVEMENTS, BUT NOR SHOULD THERE BE COMPLACENCY.

GOVERNMENTS OF PEOPLE THAT

THE "IN THE END IT IS UP TO US ALL, NOT LEAST BRITAIN AND CHINA, BY OUR WORDS AND ACTIONS, TO CONVINCE HONG KONG WILL REMAIN A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE IN, HE SAID.

"AND WHAT WE CAN SAY IS THAT THE ROAD AHEAD IS CHARTED AND THE

A CLEAR SIGNPOSTS ARE IN PLACE. YOU HAVE

FRAMEWORK; YOU HAVE THE UNPARALLELED ENERGY AND INGENUITY OF YOUR PEOPLE;

YOU HAVE THE GOODWILL AND SUPPORT OF BRITAIN AND CHINA."

AND

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO HUMAN SUFFERING

HONG KONG'S

GOVERNMENT

PEOPLE AND

ARE

OF

RESPONDING TO THE VIETNAMESE REFUGEE SITUATION IN A HUMANITARIAN WAY, THE SECRETARY

GEOFFREY HOWE, SAID STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, SIR TODAY (MONDAY). IT WAS A TRULY HUMAN PROBLEM OF SUFFERING.

AS

MA

AND THEY WAN

INCREASINGLY INTOLERABLE, THE WHOLE PROBLEM WAS BECOMING IT WAS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT THINGS COULD POSSIBLY GO ON

CHI AFTER VISITING THE REPORTERS WERE, SIR GEOFFREY TOLD CLOSED CENTRE ON LANTAU AND THE GREEN ISLAND RECEPTION CENTRE.

BE

HERE

IS

A AND THE CENTRAL THE GOVERNMENT OF

DREADFUL

THAT

WE WHAT

SEE SAID "IT MUST INDICTMENT ON THE MANAGEMENT OF AFFAIRS IN VIETNAM, RESPONSIBILITY MUST BE LAID UPON THE SHOULDERS OF VIETNAM, HE SAID.

SIR GEOFFREY SAID HE

HAD BEEN

MOVED

BY

THE

SUFFERING

AND

TRAGEDY THAT WAS INVOLVED FOR MANY FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.

BUT HE SAID THERE WAS NO

EASY

"QUICK FIX" AVAILABLE.

TO SOLUTION

THE

PROBLEM, NO

/"THAT'S WHY

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