CONFIDENTIAL
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR HONG KONG
Objectives
- To draw Committee's attention to positive effects we have been making to enlist international support for Hong Kong in line with recommendation in their report and to results we have achieved so
far.
Points to make
Agree with Committee that international dimension of great importance. Very active at international level.
Emphasise to international community that they have important stake in Hong Kong's continuing success as international trading and financial centre and that they should assist in any way possible in promoting this. Prime Minister herself has played leading role in this campaign and her efforts have had a real impact. Paris
Economic Summit Declaration and CHOGM communique contain very clear
and categorical assurances of international commitment to support
Hong Kong.
Encourage other countries to take measures along lines of our own proposed assurances scheme, which will encourage people to remain in
Hong Kong. Some countries (eg Singapore and France) have already introduced measures. Hope that others will do so too, particularly
after details of our own scheme are announced.
we
Left our partners in no doubt that, should the worst occur would look to them to help us if numbers leaving Hong Kong were larger than we could cope with alone. But such a scenario would
imply failure of all we are trying to achieve for Hong Kong under
JD. Not remotely in that position now. For this reason, probably unrealistice to expect international community to come up with firm
and specific assurances against such a contingency.
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