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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1989

HOW COULD YOU PUT YOUR DAPHNE TSE: BUT WHAT I WAS ASKING WAS: MIND AT EASE IN HANDING OVER ALL SIX MILLION PEOPLE BACK TO CHINA, WITHOUT SUCH GUARANTEE THAT THEY WILL HONOUR THE JOINT DECLARATION?

SIR GEOFFREY: WELL, ONE COMES BACK

DAPHNE

TSE:

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID

— —

IT

SHOULD

EASE

THE

MATTER?

SEF,

HAS

ABLE THE ALL THE WHOLE HAS THEREAFTER,

IS NOTHING THAT'S

SIR GEOFFREY: I KNOW, BUT ONE COMES BACK TO THE FACT, YOU THAT HONG KONG, AS A RESULT OF THIS HISTORICAL ECCENTRICITY WHICH

TERMS OF THE NOT MADE ANY OF OUR LIVES ANY EASIER, IS HELD ON THE LEASE THAT EXPIRES IN 1997. AND THE BASIS ON WHICH WE HAVE BEEN

OF TO

GOVERNMENT OF CHINA, SECURE

BY THE ACCEPTANCE

OF DECLARATION, THE JOINT COMMITMENTS CONTAINED IN COMMITMENT ΤΟ

ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS FOR 50 YEARS BEEN ACKNOWLEGEMENT BOTH WAYS, OF THAT LEASE. NOW THERE THAT I CAN DO TO PREVENT THAT LEASE COMING TO AN END IN 1997.

то CONSOLIDATE WHY WE HAVE ΤΟ DO EVERYTHING WE CONCEIVABLY CAN CONVICTION AND CONFIDENCE IN THE JOINT DECLARATION, THAT'8 FOUNDATION, AS I SAY, THAT EVERYONE ACKNOWLEDGES AS THE BEST POINT. WE'VE GOT TO WORK AS HARD AS WE CAN TO STRENGTHEN IT.

SINCE

THE STARTING

то

COMMUNITY BRITAIN'S

CHRIS POMERY (TIMES): SIR GEOFFREY, YOU SAY YOU'RE GOING

EUROPEAN MOBILISE SUPPORT ON HONG KONG'S BEHALF WITHIN THE AND OTHER MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE PARIS CONFERENCE. CREDIT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO OFFER A BLANK CHEQUE, COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW THIS SORT OF REVOLVING-DOOR PROCESS IS GOING TO WORK? HOW FAST IT MIGHT REVOLVE? AND WHEN IT MIGHT STOP?

AND

DIFFERENT TIME- SIR GEOFFREY: I THINK THERE ARE A NUMBER OF

FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE SCALES IN WHICH IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO ADDRESS IT.

OF THE CASE EARLIER STAGE, TO PURSUADE THE KEY ECONOMIC COUNTRIES

THAT DOING TO PREVENT AGAINST ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST CHINA,

STAGE, FURTHER DAMAGE TO HONG KONG. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE MORE DISTANT

THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND SECURE AS

SAID I'VE

ALREADY, TO SEEK TO

THE WORST COMMITMENT AS FAR AS POSSIBLE TO THE PRINCIPLE OF HELP IF

WHETHER KIND OF CATACLYSM SHOULD OVERTAKE HONG KONG AT A LATER STAGE. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SECURE ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS OF A MORE INSTANT KIND ALSO AND A MORE PRACTICALLY USEFUL KIND, IS SOMETHING WHICH WE SHALL WANT TO EXAMINE, BUT I'D RATHER NOT GO INTO THAT AT THIS STAGE.

/CHRIS POMERY