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FOLLOWING IS TRANSCRIPT OF QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION AT SECRETARY

CF STATE'S PRESS CONFERENCE.

DEGINS.

TRANSCRIPT OF THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE HELD BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, SIR GEOFFREY HOWE, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER,

HONG KONG, APRIL 20, 1984

Q1.

A.

RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG STEVE JOHNSON

CAN THE FOREIGN SECRETARY GIVE ANY KIND OF GUARANTEE

THAT WHATEVER IS EVENTUALLY WORKED OUT, AT PEKING, WILL ACTUALLY STICK, THAT IT WILL NOT BE RE-NEGOTIATED, AMENDED OR OVERTURNED, IF THERE IS A

CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT, EITHER IN PEKING OR IN

WESTMINSTER?

THE OBJECT OF THE NEGOTIATIONS AS I HAVE SAID, IS TO

SECURE AGREEMENT OF A FRAMEWORK OF ARRANGEMENTS THAT

WILL PROVIDE FOR WHAT WE WANT, THE MAINTENANCE OF HONG KONG AS FLOURISHING AND DYNAMIC SOCIETY, AND FOR THOSE ARRANGEMENTS TO BE INCORPORATED IN AN

AGREEMENT THAT IS FORMALLY RECORDED, AN INTERNATIONAL

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO GOVERNMENTS CF CHINA AND

THE UNITED KINGDOM, WHICH WOULD THEREAFTER DE BINDING

MUTUALLY UPON BOTH SIDES.

62.

FAR EAST ECONOMIC REVIEW

PHILIP EOWRING

DURING YOUR DISCUSSINGS IN PEKING, DID CHINA GIVE

ANY INDICATION AT ALL THAT IT IS WILLING TO AGREE

TO FORMAL DETAILED RECORDING OF THE ITEMS YOU

MENTIONED IN PARAGRAPH 9, OF YOUR TEXT HERE, OR TO

AGREE TO ANY COMMITMENT TO LINK THESE, OR THE

ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE, TO THE CONTINUATION OF THESE

TO HONG KONG'S CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL

ECCNOMIC INSTITUTIONS?

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