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THE CHINESE AND PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENTS AGREED TO RENDER TO ONE

ANOTHER, ON THE BASIS OF EQUALITY AND RECIPROCAL BENEFITS, EVERY NECESSARY ASSISTANCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS,

AS WELL AS THEIR OPERATIONS IN THE REPSECTIVE CAPITALS.'' ENDS.

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3. THE COMMUNIQUE THUS CONTAINS NO REFERENCE TO MACAU. IN HIS

CRAL STATEMENT TO THE PRESS, MOTA PINTO SAID THAT THSESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND CHINA WAS " A TRANSLATION......

........OF THE KNOWLEDGE, RESPECT AND INTERACTION OF THE TWO PEOPLES OVER MANY CENTURIES, RESULTING FROM OUR VOYAGES TO THE EAST, OF WHICH MACAU REMAINS AS AN ELOQUENT FACT''.

WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT MACAU MOTA PINTO SAID THAT ITS CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS IS NOT ALTERED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

WITH CHINA''.

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