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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1989

THAT MRS CHOW MAINTAINED

THERE WERE ONLY

FOR TWO OPTIONS IT COULD CHOOSE THE EASY BRITAIN UNDER THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES :

RUN THE RISK OF LOSING THE WAY OUT BY FOLLOWING THE FAC LINE AND RESPECT OF HONG KONG AND THE WORLD.

THE HONOURABLE WAY OUT. FACE OR IT COULD CHOOSE

THE MOST KONG SEPARATELY. AND IMMEDIATE PROBLEM OF CONFIDENCE IN HONG

PROVE SOVEREIGN LEADER WHICH WAS ITS METTLE AS THE RESPONSIBLE WORLD AND PREPARED TO RESCUE HONG KONG FROM THE PIT OF ITS OWN DESPAIR.

H

AS AN

EXCUSE ATTRACTIVE HISTORY UNTIL NOW MAY OFFER ITSELF

BUT HONG KONG. FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO WASH ITS HANDS OF

THE HISTORY AS A GREAT IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THAT ACTION WILL GO DOWN IN

OF HONG KONG BUT ALSO TO THE DISSERVICE. NOT ONLY TO THE PEOPLE BRITISH PEOPLE," SHE SAID.

HONG KONG'S

MRS CHOW SAID THE DENIAL OF THE RIGHT OF ABODE TO HOLDERS OF BRITISH PASSPORT WAS UNACCEPTABLE ON MORAL GROUNDS.

THE

HOWE SHOULD BE UNDER "NEITHER THE FAC NOR SIR GEOFFREY

ΤΟ ILLUSION. NOR SHOULD THEY CREATE OR BROADCAST IT. THAT THEIR STAND

PROTECTION, IS ANY MORE DESERT BRITAIN'S PEOPLE UNDER ITS CARE AND

DESPITE THEIR EFFORTS то ACCEPTABLE NOW THAN IT HAS BEEN,

JUSTIFY

SHE SAID.

IT.

HARDLY ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MRS CHOW ADDED THAT THERE WAS

WHERE THE THE POSITION OF THE FAC AND THAT OF THE FOREIGN SECRETARY.

WAS

HONESTY UP TO SIR FAC

MATCH

GEOFFREY

THE

AND FAILED TO

SUBJECT. STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS WITH WHICH THE LATTER HAD DEALT WITH THE

UK, CHINA SHOULD CO-OPERATE ON CONFIDENCE CRISIS

THE BRITISH AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENTS SHOULD CO-OPERATE FULLY TO RESOLVE THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN HONG KONG, THE HON MARTIN LEE SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IF THEY DID NOT DO SO, THERE WAS A STRONG LIKELIHOOD THAT BOTH WOULD BE IN BREACH OF CLAUSE FOUR OF THE JOINT DECLARATION, MR LEX SAID.

THIS CLAUSE PROVIDED THAT "DURING THE TRANSITION PERIOD, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG WITH THE OBJECT OF MAINTAINING PRESERVING ITS ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL STABILITY; AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA WILL GIVE CO-OPERATION IN THIS CONNECTION",

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