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EXTRACT FROM A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY AND VICE-CHAIRMAN DENG XIAOPING IN PEKING ON 3 APRIL 1981 AT 1100 AM
Present:
The Rt Hon The Lord Carrington
Sir Bercy Cradock
Sir Edward Youde
Mr G G H Walden
Mr N M Fenn
Mr R JT McLaren
Mr M W Atkinson
Mr. C 0 Hum
Mr JP Watson
Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping
Huang Hua, Vice-Premier
and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Song Zhiguang, Assistant
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ke Hua, Chinese Ambassador
to Britain
Guo Jie, Deputy Director,
Western European Dept, MFA
Cao Huanxin, Deputy
Director, Protocol Dept, MFA
1. Lord Carrington said that Vice-Chairman Deng had just
repeated to British journalists his earlier assurances
about Hong Kong. Of course the British Government accepted
these assurances unequivocally. If this was just a matter
between the British and Chinese Governments there would be
no problem. But he had just come from two or three days in Hong Kong, and had brought away certain impressions. Because the British relied (perhaps over-much) on
concepts of legality, the date of 1997 was beginning to
cause uncertainty in the minds of the Hong Kong people
in spite of the assurances which the Vice-Chairman had
given.
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