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HONG KONG PRBBS CONFERBICE

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FOREIGN SECRETARY:

I am not going to begin rehearsing my catalogue, so to speak,

of possible points. I identified some of them in my speech

yesterday; others have been identifying things that occurred to

them. It is very early in the oonsultative process. i think it is

very important that that process should be taken seriously.

should take the opportunity of getting points of view across to the

Basic Law Drafting Committee and to the Consultative Committee.

People

QUESTION

Foreign Sacratary, could you and your colleagues have done

and will do - (anything) to help the Hanai Government to stop the

outflow of people and to take back those people who are already in

Hong Kong now?

PORRIGI SECRETARY:

It is a case we have already been pressing internationally in

a number of places. It is a case we shall continue to press and

directly, of course, on the government of Vietnam because, as I said

in my statement, it cannot be right for a continuous flow of people

from Vietnam to be seeking places elsewhere in the world to find a

future which they should be finding within Vietnam itself.

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