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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989
JOHN ELLIOT (FINANCIAL TIMES): ARE YOU
FACTOR, OR ARE NOT A FACTOR?
SAYING NUMBERS ARE A
YOU CAN'T GET
LORD GLENARTHUR: WELL OF COURSE NUMBERS EXIST, AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 100,000 PEOPLE AFFECTED, ROUGHLY, MACAU, AND IT IS IN EXCESS OF 3 MILLION HERE.
YOJARA SHARMA: BUT THE POPULATION OF PORTUGAL IS THE POPULATION OF BRITAIN, AND IT'S A SMALLER COUNTRY, COUNTRY.
IN
SMALLER THAN AND A POORER
PROBLEM WHICH IS PARTS OF THE EUROPEAN
LORD GLENARTHUR: WELL, YES, YOU POINT AT A DIFFERENT IN ITS DIMENSIONS WITHIN DIFFERENT
COMMUNITY.
THE
MAGGIE NELSON (RTHK): CAN I HAVE YOUR RESPONSE TO THE MOUNTING
OF WIVES
EX- PRESSURE ΤΟ
FULL GIVE
BRITISH CITIZENSHIP TO SERVICEMEN?
LORD GLENARTHUR: YES, THIS WAS A POINT THAT WAS RAISED WITH ME LAST NIGHT, AND WHAT I HAVE UNDERTAKEN TO DO IS TO LOOK VERY CAREFULLY AT THE INDIVIDUAL CASES, AND I EXPECT OMELCO NOW TO SUBMIT DETAILS AND DOSSIERS OF THOSE CASES AND I WILL HAVE THEM LOOKED AT STRAIGHT AWAY.
MCMULLAN (PRESS ASSOCIATION): TO CLARIFY ONE OF YOUR EARLIER ANSWERS WHEN YOU MENTIONED 100,000 AGAINST 3 MILLION, WHY DID MILLION PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY MENTION 3 MILLION? DO YOU THINK THAT 3 WOULD WANT TO COME TO BRITAIN?
TOM
LORD GLENARTHUR: I DIDN'T MENTION IT BECAUSE I THINK 3 MILLION GOT BRITISH THEY'VE THE IT'S
ACTUAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO, NATIONALITY, THAT'S ALL, THAT'S THE RATIO.
COULD,
TOM
MCMULLAN:
AND HOW MANY DO YOU THINK MIGHT
COME IF THE
OFFER WERE OPEN TO THEM?
I
OF
LORD GLENARTHUR: WELL I'M NOT OPEN TO MAKE ANY CALCULATIONS
HAVE EVERY THAT SORT AT ALL. WHAT I'M PREPARED TO SAY IS THAT
TO IMPLEMENT THE CONFIDENCE THAT
THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE ALL JOINT
BEING DECLARATION, IS
CARRIED SINO-BRITISH
FORWARD DISCUSSIONS NOW WITH THE CHINESE. THAT THE NEED WOULD NOT ARISE IN ANY
CASE.
IN
:
THE
IS FROM
GOVERNMENT WILL BE
YOU FROM STEVE VINES (OBSERVER): LORD GLENARTHUR, CAN I ASK IMMIGRATION FROM A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW. AS YOU KNOW
OR RATHER AUSTRALIA, KNOW THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT WHICH IS THE,
IMMIGRANTS, KONG WHICH
THE SECOND LARGEST RECIPIENT OF HONG IS SUFFICIENTLY CONCERNED ABOUT A POSSIBLE DOWNTURN IN IMMIGRATION HONG KONG AND INVESTMENT FROM HONG KONG TO BE SENDING A MINISTER HERE TO REASSURE THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG THAT THEY WELCOME IN AUSTRALIA. BRITAIN I THINK IS THE FOURTH, AND THE FOURTH BY A VERY LONG MARGIN AWAY FROM THE UNITED STATES POSITION RECIPIENT OF HONG KONG IMMIGRANTS; DO YOU THINK MISSING OUT ON OPPORTUNITIES BY HAVING 30 FEW IMMIGRANTS KONG, AND SO LITTLE INVESTMENT COMING IN FROM THIS PLACE?
AS THE THIRD BRITAIN IS FROM HONG
/LORD GLENARTAUR :
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