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LEUNG CHAU-YIN (ATV): MR MAUDE, YOU SAID A MOMENT AGO THAT

AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE. JOHN MAJOR AND YOURSELF COMPRISE A NEW TEAM

GOVERNMENT WILL CHANGE ITS POLICY DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE BRITISH

MY SECOND QUESTION IS TOWARDS HONG KONG?

AN RELATED TO

EARLIER GOVERNMENT CANNOT PROVIDE THE STATEMENT YOU MADE, THAT THE BRITISH

HONG KONG RIGHT OF ABODE TO ALL IN HONG KONG. WHEN DELEGATIONS FROM

MADE CLEAR THAT THERE WENT TO UK TO LOBBY FOR THAT PURPOSE IT WAS

OF WOULD BE DIVISIVE EFFECTS IF ONLY SOME PEOPLE WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT

OF WHAT YOU HAVE SAID, ARE ABODE. SO, IN THE LIGHT

YOU REALLY IGNORING THE POINT THAT THERE WILL BE DIVISIVE EFFECTS?

THAT IF YOU MR MAUDE: WELL. I THINK IT IS CLEARLY THE CASE

TO OTHERS THEN THERE GIVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE TO SOME AND NOT

ARE AN UNCOMFORTABLE DISTINCTIONS BEING MADE BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THAT IS FACT WHICH HAS TO BE FACED AND THERE IS NO DODGING THAT THERE'S PROCESS, NO FUDGING IT THAT HAS TO HAPPEN. AND IT IS A DIFFICULT

IT, BUT WHICH IS WHY IT IS TAKING US SOME TIME TO WORK OUT HOW TO DO

AT ALL. AND, WE THAT IS IMPLICIT IN HAVING A SCHEME OF THIS SORT WANT TO GET THAT PACKAGE RIGHT AND TO GET IT AS GOOD AS IT CAN BE THAT IS WHY WE ARE WORKING SO HARD AT IT.

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LEUNG CHAU-YIN: AND HOW ABOUT THE FIRST QUESTION?

MR MAUDE:

WHICH

AND

ISSUE FOREVER.

AT THERE IS NO POINT WELL, THERE IS

ANY ON POLICY IS FORMULATED AND ENCASED IN ICE AND REMAINS THE SAME

AS DEVELOPING IS ALWAYS

NEW ISSUES

AS ARISE, AND, POLICY

NEW IS DEVELOPING. THERE DEVELOPMENTS TAKE PLACE AND, OF COURSE, POLICY

AS A RESULT OF TWO NEW IS GOING TO BE NO RADICAL SHIFT OF POLICY MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR HONG KONG. BUT, AS I HAVE SAID, WE COME IT NEW AND WE COME TO IT FRESH.

(THE

GUARDIAN):

JOHN PALMER BRIEF VISIT IN YOUR DISCUSSIONS WITH PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED WITH EUROPEAN ANTI-DUMPING FEARS OF FORTRESS BUROPE

ΤΟ

IN YOUR CAN I ASK YOU WHETHER HONG HONG INDUSTRIALISTS THE DUTIES AND GENERAL YOU HAD YOU ARE

OR

WHETHER EMERGED

NOT, AND THAT. AND SECONDLY, WHETHER ANYTHING TO TELL THEM ABOUT PLANNING TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF RIGHT OF ABODE SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE

PORTUGAL 13 SINCE OF COURSE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CONTEXT SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF MACAUANS TO PORTUGAL, WHO WILL HAVE OF ABODE IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY?

ON MR MAUDE : WELL,

THE

FIRST

ADMITTING THE RIGHT

ΤΟ ISSUE, NO. I AM BOUND

THE LAST TWO NO DOUBT IF I STAYED HERE A IT WAS RAISED WITH ME, I'M BOUND TO

SAY ONE OF THE ISSUES RAISED WITH ME IN THE COURSE OF DAYS HAS NOT BEEN EC ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES. LITTLE LONGER IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. SAY, A YEAR AGO, WHEN I WAS HERE AS A TRADE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER WITH FOR NEGOTIATING THE SINGLE EUROPEAN THE PARTICULAR RESPONSIBILITY

A LITTLE TIME ABOUT ANTI-DUMPING MARKET. WE HAVE HAD CONCERN FOR

I THINK DUTIES BEING CAPABLE OF BEING USED IN A PROTECTIONIST MANNER.

IN JANUARY THIS YEAR THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION WHICH TOOK OFFICE

IS WELCOME ΤΟ TAKES A MORE LIBERAL APPROACH TO THESE MATTERS, WHICH

US.

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