MONDAY. JUNE 19, 1989
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MESSAGE FOR BRITAIN: 'HONG KONG IS OUR HOME"
DAME
LYDIA
DUNN
AND
FOR
FOR
THE
SENIOR MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SENIOR MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR ALLEN LEE WILL LEAVE LONDON THIS (MONDAY) EVENING TO PRESS FOR THE RIGHT OF ABODE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.
AT A PRESS
TODAY. CONFERENCE
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THEIR TRIP TO LONDON WAS MESSAGE TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC. THE HOME"
H
MESSAGE
DAME LYDIA SAID
OF ONE
THE TO TAKE HONG KONG'S IS: *HONG KONG IS OUR
LEAVE. ΤΟ
STAY, OUR ANXIETIES ALLAYED IF THERE
SHE SAID: "WE DO NOT WANT TO MUST BE ALLAYED. OUR ANXIETIES CAN ONLY BE ASSURANCE THAT THERE IS A RIGHT OF ABODE IN BRITAIN IF THINGS WORK OUT."
HAD A
MORAL
ΤΟ
18 AN DO NOT
AND OBLIGATION
A RESTORE THE NOW, WITHOUT REQUIRING
SHE POINTED OUT THAT BRITAIN CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AS WELL AS THE POWER, RIGHT OF ABODE TO HONG KONG BRITISH SUBJECTS THEM TO LEAVE HONG KONG TO GET IT.
THEMSELVES
ΤΟ
"THAT WILL ENCOURAGE HONG KONG PEOPLE TO COMMIT FUTURE IN HONG KONG.
ON TO BUILD
ITS
DEVELOP SUCCESS, AND TO
PART OF CHINA. DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS READY FOR ITS FUTURE AUTONOMY AS SHE SAID.
"WE BELIEVE IN THE FAIRNESS AND DECENCY OF THE BRITISH WE BELIEVE THEY WILL WANT THEIR GOVERNMENT TO GIVE SUPPORT TO SUBJECTS IN THEIR HOUR OF NEED. THAT WOULD BE THE HONOURABLE DAME LYDIA SAID.
"WE HAVE BEEN GREATLY ENCOURAGED IN THE LAST FEW ENORMOUS INTEREST AND SUPPORT WE HAVE HAD FROM MEMBERS OF BOTH HERE AND IN BRITAIN, SHE ADDED.
H
LYDIA
ASSURED HONG
DAYS
PEOPLE. BRITISH COURSE,
BY THE
THE MEDIA,
THAT THE
FINALLY, DAME
KONG PEOPLE DELEGATION WOULD DO ITS UTMOST TO PUT ACROSS HONG KONG'S CASE.
"WE KNOW THAT HONG KONG PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE HONG HONG KONG IS OUR HOME," SHE STRESSED.
KONG.
BE SEEING THE WHILST IN LONDON. THE TWO SENIOR MEMBERS WILL
THEY PRIME MINISTER, THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
AFFAIRS WILL ALSO BE MEETING THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE FOREIGN COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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