CONFIDENTIAL
PRIME MINISTER'S CALL ON CHAIRMAN DENG XIAOPING: 19 DECEMBER
POINTS TO MAKE
BRIEF NO 3
A. HONG KONG
1.
Delighted to meet you again.
Greatly valued 1982 discussion,
when agreed to begin talks on Hong Kong. Great satisfaction to return to Peking to sign Joint Declaration.
2.
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Success owes much to your personal vision of "one country two
systems". Imaginative and far sighted. Provides framework for maintenance of Hong Kong's stability and prosperity after 1997 as part of China. Possible wider international significance in bringing about reunification of divided countries.
3. Believe agreement fully meets interests of both countries. Provides foundation on which the people of Hong Kong can build still more flourishing community. Can also form a basis for closer and more substantial cooperation between Britain and China - over Hong Kong itself and in fields of trade and technology.
4.
Declaration.
British Government will stick scrupulously to terms of Joint
Appreciate very clear and categorical statements which you and Premier Zhao have made to same effect. Have contributed to excellent reception which agreement has had both in international
community and in Hong Kong.
5. People of Hong Kong have given clear view on the agreement. Great majority view it positively. Only natural some doubts and fears in people's minds: face momentous and unprecedented change. But Hong Kong people greatly reassured by Premier Zhao's statement to Hong Kong Government delegation of China's total commitment to
fulfilling agreement.
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