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FUTURE OF HONG KONG: RELEVANCE OF THE STATUS OF MACAO
1.
The Portuguese Ambassador, Senhor de Freit
itas-Cruz, called on me today to enquire about Mrs Thatcher's talks on Hong Kong with
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Chinese leaders. I told him about the agreement to enter into talks through diplomatic channels with the common aim of maintaining the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong and that contacts were just beginning in Peking. I stuck closely to the terms of the agreed joint statement and to the points made by the Prime Minister at her press conferences in Peking and Hong Kong.
2. I then asked Senhor de Freitas-Cruz about Macao. He was in a
good position to speak because he was Foreign Minister of Portugal between autumn 1978 and the beginning of 1980 when he was posted
as Ambassador to London.
3.
He asked me to respect his confidence since he knew that we
had tried several times in Lisbon to discover what had passed
between the Portuguese and Chinese Governments without much
success. He said that in 1974 after the revolution of 25 April, the military régime had tried to hand over Macao to China.
their Stalinist views, they had felt that they must get rid of
their colonial possessions including Macao, but the Chinese had
refused to accept back Macao.
4.
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The Ambassador said that in early 1976, under the leadership of Mario Suares, the Portuguese Government had begun negotiations
to enter into diplomatic relations with China. The contacts had
taken place between the Portuguese and Chinese Embassies in Paris.
By 1977 the talks had become formalised and texts were exchanged
between the two sides. But the negotiations went on until mid-1978
without any concrete results. When Senhor de Freitas-Cruz became
Foreign Minister he revived the discussions and an agreement
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