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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1989
PHILIP BOWRING: BUT IS IT NOT, SIR GEOFFREY, THAT......
SIR GEOFFREY:
EVEN THE FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW 13 ENTITLED TO HAVE THE FULL ANSWER TO ITS QUESTION,
PHILIP BOWRING: WOULD YOU ADDRESS YOURSELF THEN TO THE POINT WHICH HAS BEEN RAISED WHEN YOU'RE ANSWERING.
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SIR GEOFFREY: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE I DO NOT COME TO CONFERENCES TO BE HECKLED, AND YOURS IS THE FIRST OCCASION THAT HAD THAT HAPPEN.
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PHILIP BOWRING: I'M NOT HECKLING YOU, SIR GEOFFREY, ASKING YOU WHETHER, HAVING RAISED IT, YOU COULD ADDRESS THE FRENCH AND THE PORTUGUESE ISSUES?
I'M JUST YOURSELF TO
SIR GEOFFREY: I'M AFRAID I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FROM YOU, SIR,
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LI YUK LIN (ATV): SIR GEOFFREY, YOU SAID A MOMENT AGO THAT JOINT DECLARATION IS THE BEST FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE OF HONG I KNOW THAT MR JI PENG FEI OF THE HONG KONG-MACAU OFFICE SAID THAT ONE COUNTRY TWO-SYSTEM CONCEPT WILL GIVE HONG KONG AUTONOMY. AND YET THEY CANNOT INTERFERE WITH THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
A HIGH DEGREE OF CHINA. IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS, MANY PEOPLE IN HONG KONG SUPPORTED THE BEIJING STUDENTS. TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, AND TO YOU, DO YOU THINK THAT THIS WOULD JEOPARDISE THE CONCEPT OF ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEM, THEN ALSO PUT IN JEOPARDY THE JOINT DECLARATION. YOU THINK THAT SUCH ACTIONS SHOULD STOP?
FROM YOUR ANGLE, DO
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SIR GEOFFREY: 1 UNDERSTAND, OF COURSE, BEING THE JOINT DECLARATION.
THE STARTING POINT I DREW ATTENTION TO THE FACT, YESTERDAY, THAT CHINESE LEADERS HAD BEEN REAFFIRMING COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS.
THE IMPORTANCE THAT IN ITSELF IS NOT ENOUGH.
OF ONE MOST IMPORTANT
BUT I'M SURE THING TO ACHIEVE, IS THE FLOURISHMENT OF
THE WE'VE SOUGHT TO SECURE FOR HONG KONG HERE IN HONG KONG AND
THE SYSTEM THAT IT MUST BE SENSIBLE TO CONCENTRATE ON THAT.
I THINK PROTECT HONG KONG,
IF ONE IS SEEKING TO DOMINANCE OR INTERFERENCE, BY THE OTHER SYSTEM IN THE OTHER PART OF THE WE'VE ESTABLISHED HERE FROM COUNTRY, THEN IT MUST, I THINK, BE SENSIBLE TO SET ABOUT OUR OWN SYSTEM IN THE SAME WAY:
AND THE SYSTEM
ESTABLISHING
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