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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989

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MR. MICHAEL WELSH:

Is it not the subject of re-negotiation, the actual physical presence of a potentially large Chinese garrison

in Hong Kong?

SIR DAVID VILSON :

I go

back to what I said earlier about the

difficulty, This is really, I think, a question for the

Foreign Secretary rather than me,

but what I would see

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the difficulty of opening up one section of a treaty which has been negotiated. To my mind, it is something which is an add-on problem rather than something where you go

back and re-negotiate the actual treaty.

CHAIRMAN;

Could we now turn, Sir David, because we have

limited time and I know this evening you yourself have to

head for Geneva and the Conference on Vietnamese Boat

People, but we will come to that later,

Could we now turn to the question of nationality,

which has greatly preoccupied minds both in Hong Kong and

here. Mr. Temple-Morris would like to ask you some

questions.