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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1989
ON
SALLY BLYTH (RTHK): YOU SAY THAT YOU WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE ΤΟ MOOD OF THE CHANGED ATMOSPHERE IN HONG KONG WHEN YOU GO BACK LONDON. BUT WHEN THE BRITISH CABINET IS CONSIDERING THE PROPOSALS
WILL
BE YOU, NATIONALITY,
PERHAPS,
PUSHING FOR MORE ALTERATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR VISIT HERE?
RADICAL
SIR
GEOFFREY
HOWE:
J
IN HAVE TAKEN ON
ADVANCE.
THE EXTENT OF ONE THING THAT
WELL. I DON'T DISCLOSE EVEN WHAT
BUT I CERTAINLY I AM GOING TO SAY IN CABINET. BOARD AS I THINK I HAD ALREADY, AS A MATTER OF FACT PEOPLE'S CONCERN HERE ON THE RIGHT OF ABODE QUESTION. I CAN SAY IS THAT THE VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG HAVE BEEN EFFECTIVELY REPRESENTED BY THE LEADERS OF HONG KONG'S ESTABLISHMENT WHEN THEY CAME TO BRITAIN A WEEK OR TWO AGO, WERE MADE VERY CLEAR TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS WHEN THEY WERE HERE. SO WE ARE IN NO DOUBT ABOUT THEM. BEEN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT ALREADY.
VERY POLITICAL AND THEY COMMITTEE THEY HAVE
BLYTH (RTHK): SO. WHAT WAS THE USE OF YOUR VISIT SALLY IF THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT?
THEN,
AS HERE.
SIR GEOFFREY : WELL, THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN FULLY AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT MY BEING ABLE TO SEE
INTO THEM FOR
ACCOUNT MYSELF
IRENE SUNG (SING TAO JIH PAO) SIR GEOFFREY, YOU HAVE SAID THE THAT
JOINT DECLARATION
OFFERING THE BEST POSSIBLE GUARANTEE OF HONG KONG'S FUTURË, BUT HOW CAN YOU CONVINCE HONG KONG PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT THE BINDING OF THE JOINT DECLARATION WON'T VANISHED AFTER 1997?
SIR GEOFFREY
-
NOT
BE
IS THAT IS COMMITTEE.
THAT
THE
THAT VIEW
ALMOST
IT,
BEEN
TO
WELL, :
WHAT I'VE SAID
PROPOSITION
IN IS,
SUBSTANCE, COMMON GROUND. EXPRESSED BY
AFFAIRS OMELCO, AS BY THE FOREIGN EVERYONE
EVERYONE BUT ALMOST EVERYONE WHO HAS CONSIDERED HAS PROCLAIMED THE JOINT DECLARATION AS, IN ITSELF, AN ACHIEVEMENT.
НАЯ THEY'VE ALL JOINED WITH ME IN SAYING THAT CONFIDENCE IN IT SERIOUSLY WEAKENED BY WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PEKING BUT THAT WE HAVE
THAT FROM IT AS THE BEST DEFINITION OF THE SAFEGUARDS START
PEOPLE START FROM NEED TO CONSOLIDATE AND PUT IN PLACE MORE FIRMLY. SO WE
IN LEADERSHIP THAT AND THAT'S WHY I GO ON TO SAY THAT IT'S FOR THE
SOME PEKING NOW, TO BEGIN TAKING ACTION AFTER ACTION TO HELP RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO IT. IT WILL TAKE A GREAT DEAL TIME AND THERE'S A HUGE GAP OF GROWTH AND CONFIDENCE TO BE BUT EVERYONE AGREES THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION IS THE POINT.
BEST
OF
OVERCOME.
STARTING
/JOHN ELLIOTT