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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG

12 JUNE 1989

FROM JAMES LEE FOR COI RADIO TECHNICAL SERVICES

TRANSCRIPT OF MEETING OF

THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

IN LONDON, OF MONDAY,

OF MONDAY, 12 JUNE 1989

TRANSCRIPT C

(CONTINUED FROM TRANSCRIPT B)

MAA AM BANK DAN M

MR. MICHAEL VELSH;

Due to the recent trouble that we have seen in

China, do you not think now that you should re-negotiate

it to see if it could be possible not to have the Chinese

army stationed in Hong Kong?

Let me give you an example:

if I was living in

Hong Kong and they put the 27th in, I would be worried!

SIR DAVID WILSON:

Mr. Welsh, so would the people of Hong Kong!

This is one of the areas that I think we will have

to look at in the future,

I am not sure if it is a

straightforward question of negotiating to keep the PLA

out of Hong Kong because, as I mentioned before, under the

Joint Declaration they do have a right to station troops

there if they wish to do s0, but the decision is theirs.

But the need for intense sensitivity about how that right

is used is something which now must be self-apparent.