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17. Her third comment related to the assurances given by Premier Zhao that in the course of drafting the Basic Law the views of the people of Hong Kong would be solicited on a wide basis. Could she also repeat this assurance in Hong Kong? Premier Zhao said that she could.
18. The Prime Minister said that the House of Commons had approved the agreement on 5 December and the House of Lords on 10 December. We were pledged to secure ratification by 30 June 1985.
19. Premier Zhao said that a satisfactory agreement on the question of Hong Kong had been reached by the two sides through showing mutual trust, through friendly cooperation and through setting store by their respective countries' greater interests. If work continued in the same spirit, China and Britain would succeed in fully implementing the agreement.
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