1989-06-12 19:40 COI RADIO TECH SERVICES.
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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
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MR. IVAN LAWRENCE:
You said also, Sir David, that whatever we were told
when went there would be even more strongly told to us
now,
Does that not mean that we would have to expect even
more people coming to settle in the United Kingdom now
than we would have expected before this trouble in China?
SIR DAVID WILSON:
The point I was making was if a right of entry was
given to the potential 3.2 million...it is a pity in a way
that this figura keeps re-emerging because as I have said
a number of times the number who actually have British
passports or British travel documents of various kinds is
very much less than that it is about a third of that.
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What I said before was that if this was given, my
judgement was that the number of people who would move
would be far less than that. That still remains my view
despite everything that has happened recently around Hong
Kong.
I think there are two very different scenarios:
one is the present, which is a scenario of worry in which people want reassurances but they do not necessarily feel
they want to move now.
The other is the scenario where
everything goes wrong, which all of us hope will
never
happen, but under that second scenario I suggest that
there is a moral obligation remaining, whether or not
anything has been done now.
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