Lord Glenarthur interview with Gordon Martin, Diplomatic
Correspondent, BBC External Services
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Will you be meeting British and Hong Kong offficials -- personalities, including people like Xu Jiatun, the head of the New China News Agency office and in fact Peking's representative in Hong Kong?
Is your visit geared in any way to the planned visit to Peking by the Governor of Hong Kong a few days later?
Is your visit a reflection of the need felt here to monitor developments closely in the run-up to 1997, and would you expect to go to Hong Kong regularly?
Will you be looking particularly closely at the possible introduction of some measure of direct election to Legco, since the public consultation period following the Green Paper in May is now coming to an end?
What is your reading of various pronouncements by Peking spokesmen on the desirablility or otherwise of a process of direct elections?
With Peking due to publish its Basic Law for the Hong Kong of post-1997 next year, how would you reply to those in Hong Kong who believe that Peking's wishes are regarded by the British government as of paramount importance?
Fears were expressed earlier this year about the effect of the Public Order Bill, which made it an offence to publish news likely to cause alarm. Have those fears been groundless?
Is the work of the Joint Liaison Group going well? Peking wants the British garrison to stay down. Is this issue, and the related questions of cost and
we want to scale it accommodation for PLA troups, on the way to being resolved?
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