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overwhelmingly accepted by the people of Hong Kong.

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QUESTION

And yet, Mrs. Thatcher, the international treaties

were the ones that you cited two years ago when you went to

Peking when at that point the Chinese Government had already

The treaties were stated that it wanted Hong Kong back.

the ones you stood by at that time; what in the past two

years caused the change?

PRIME MINISTER

As I have indicated, we have now freely entered into

new Agreement which we regard as legally binding and our

concern now is to implement that Agreement and to honour it

to the full - which both sides will.

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