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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1988

BRITAIN, CHINA 'COMMITTED TO FAITHFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF JD'

TOTALLY

BRITISH

THE BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS ARE

COMMITTED TO

THE JOINT THE FAITHFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF

THE DECLARATION, AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, SIR RICHARD EVANS, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT THE AIRPORT BEFORE HIS CANTON, SIR RICHARD SAID: "THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WORK

OF

DEPARTURE FOR

ΤΟ DO.

THICK GREAT DEAL

"AND I'M QUITE SURE THAT THE EMBASSY WILL REMAIN IN THE THINGS, THAT THE EMBASSY WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE A VERY ΤΟ DO WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.

RETIRE AS

AMBASSADOR TO WITH WHICH

SIR RICHARD, WHO WILL SOON

BRITISH CHINA, RECALLED THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION WAS A DOCUMENT "I HAVE BEEN MUCH ROUND UP."

THE ROUNDS

OF

LEADER OF THE BRITISH DELEGATION THE JOINT LED TALKS WHICH

ΤΟ

HE NOTED THAT HE WAS

OF THE 22

DURING 15 DECLARATION.

"AND I WAS PRESENT AT THE CEREMONIES FOR THE INITIALLING, SIGNATURE AND ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.

AND SINCE

THEN,

RICHARD SIR CONCERNED WITH ITS IMPLEMENTATION,

THE

F

SAID

HE HAD

VERY BEEN

MUCH

PUBLICATION

POLITICAL REFORMS, SIR RICHARD IN REPLY TO A QUESTION ABOUT SAID HE BELIEVED THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT REGARDED THE OF THE WHITE PAPER AS THE AFFAIR OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.

BEEN INVITED TO HONG SIR RICHARD TOLD REPORTERS THAT HE HAD KONG BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, FOR A THREE-DAY STAY.

HE WAS ALSO INVITED COUNCIL YESTERDAY.

ATTEND TO

A

MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE

REFORM

OF

MEETING ABOUT PROGRESS IN "I SPOKE AT THAT

CHINA'S PROGRAMMES POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC, AND ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION THE JOINT DECLARATION, SIR RICHARD SAID.

Th

"THIS IS

MY

16TH VISIT

TO

HONG

ATMOSPHERE

OF

•

AMBASSADOR. AS EVER, AS ALWAYS,

TERRITORY, HE ADDED.

ENTERPRISE

I HAVE AND DYNAMISM

TIME AS KONG DURING BEEN MOST IMPRESSED BY THE THE WHOLE WHICH PERVADES

MY

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