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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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REPLY (s)

ANSWER:

Following

detention by police at Peking airport

on 5 June, our Embassy in Peking lodged an immediate enquiry

with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made

considerable efforts to trace his whereabouts. The Embassy

subsequently established that he was unharmed in a hotel room

in Peking and kept in close contact with him. We have now

had confirmation that

was evacuated safely from

Peking on 8 June.

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(Minister)

Parliamentary Clerk

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