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TRANSCRIPT B: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG

12 JUNE 1989

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SIR DAVID VILSON :

I think it is right to say that Article 5 of the

Malu Declaration is a key article and this is the crux of

the whole thing, that Hong Kong goes on with its own

lifestyles and its Own freedomS.

crucial.

I think that is

It is separate, I would suggest, from the question

That that is of Hong Kong people when they are in China.

about what happens in Hong Kong and it is vital that

everything should be done to make sure that that

particular clause is carried out in practice.

MR. JIM LESTER:

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ring fence behind what you can do in Hong Kong

when you actually want to support colleagues in a

university in the same country.

SIR DAVID WILSON:

Yes. in Hong Kong, we have the same problem that

any place has when people who are residents of Hong Kong

go elsewhere and get into trouble with the authorities

there. We have the additional problem that many of those

people are regarded in China as being Chinese nationals

and they are travelling on Chinese travel documents,

British travel documents.

Nevertheless,

not

we,

the Hong