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MR MAUDE: WELL, I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE. IS A FRENCH COMMITMENT TO THIS SCHEME WHICH IS BEING IMPLEMENTED ISN'T FINAL BUT IT IS BEING IMPLEMENTED. AS I SAY IN THIS STATEMENT, GERMANY, BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG ARE ABOUT TO FINALISE SCHEMES OF BROADLY THE SAME NATURE. AND I SAY AGAIN, THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVEN'T BEEN CARRIED ON WITH THE CONSULATE GENERALS IN HONG KONG. THEY HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT AT GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT LEVEL IN THE NATIONAL CAPITALS IN EUROPE. AND AS I GO ON TO SAY HERE, A NUMBER OF OTHER EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNTRIES ARE CONSIDERING ACTIVELY WHAT THEY COULD DO TO HELP. NOW, A NUMBER OF THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN HELD BETWEEN MINISTERS AND, AS WE HAVE DISCOVERED WITH OUR OWN PACKAGE, IT IS QUITE A COMPLEX TECHNICAL BUSINESS. BUT THE POINT I WAS SEEKING TO MAKE IN THIS STATEMENT IS THAT THERE IS ACROSS THE WORLD, AMONG OUR PARTNERS AND ALLIES, A GOOD DEAL OF SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THE POSITION OF HONG KONG, AND A DESIRE TO DO WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP. AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THIS STATEMENT IS TO POINT TO THE FLEXIBILITY EXISTING - YES, NO CHANGE OF POLICY IN AUSTRALIA IN CANADA POINT TO THE FLEXIBILITY WITHIN THEIR RULES WHICH ACTUALLY PEOPLE NOT TO HAVE TO LEAVE HONG KONG ABSOLUTELY WHILE NATIONALITY IN THOSE COUNTRIES. AND THE POINT IN THE UNITED STATES IS THAT A LEADING CONGRESSMAN HAS ACTUALLY MADE A PROPOSITION IT MAY BE ONLY A SINGLE CONGRESSMAN BUT AS YOU ALL KNOW, THERE IS A GOOD DEAL OF SUPPORT IN CONGRESS FOR HONG KONG - AND THIS CONGRESSMAN IS SEEKING TO PERSUADE HIS COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMITTEE DEALING WITH THIS IMMIGRATION BILL THAT THIS MEASURE SHOULD GO THROUGH. NOW IF IT DOES GO THROUGH, THAT IS VERY VALUABLE, AND IT IS VERY VALUABLE, I THINK. THAT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE IN THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES I HAVE REFERRED TO, WHO ARE SEEKING VERY SINCERELY AND GENUINELY TO DO WHAT THEY CAN DO TO HELP HONG KONG, THAT THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT ACTUALLY DOING IT ON THEIR OWN. WE GAVE THE LEAD. WHEN WE ORIGINALLY MADE QVERTUVES TO OTHER COUNTRIES. BACK WELL BEFORE DOUGLAS HURD MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PACKAGE IN DECEMBER, THE RESPONSE WE HAD AT THAT STAGE WAS GENERALLY SYMPATHETIC: YES, WE WOULD LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT

PUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING? AND THAT WAS VFLY FAIR, PE ARE THE WHICH HAS THE MAIN RESPONSIBILITY AND WE WAVE PUT ON ONE HETAL, PROPERLY, TO COME UP WITH OUR OWN PACKAGE TO GIVE THE LEAD. WE HAVE DONE AND THAT IS UNDERSTOOD.

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