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13 June 1989
Brow Mestis Mardment and Meltheiler,
The Foreign Secretary has asked me to thank you for your letter of 9 June about the developments in China.
The matter is receiving attention and a reply will be sent to you as soon as possible.
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(Neal Hammond)
Assistant Private Secretary
Messrs Maidment and McWhirter The British Chamber of
Commerce in Hong Kong
6th Floor
8 Queen's Road Central HONG KONG
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TO IMMEDIATE FCO
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OF 130335Z JUNE 89
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9 June 1989
A BAD WEEK FOR FREEDOM
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The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mr Shridath Ramphal, issued the following statement today:
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"Commonwealth countries have shared in the anger and sorrow of the international community over the events in China and there is a special sharing in the anguish of the people of Hong Kong. World opinion and world action must help to turn the rulers of China away from the path of repression, crushing as they go the first blooms of freedom.
South Africa is living testimony to the degeneracy of that path. That is why the Commonwealth will particularly condemn the renewal of the State of Emergency which has been continued in force on the ground that 'the level of violence in South Africa is unacceptably high'. So it is; but that is essentially the violence of apartheid perpetrated under the 'emergency'. As long ago as 1986, the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group told the South African Government that what is required is 'a commitment to suspend the violence arising from the administration of apartheid'. The renewal of the emergency is South Africa's assertion that no such commitment is forthcoming.
And the Commonwealth today will send a message of hope that the Rev Frank Chikane, will recover from what appears to be attempts to assassinate him and that he will be able to resume his vital work for the cause of freedom in South Africa".
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