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4 JULY 1989

POREIGN &NCRETARY (CONT):

action but to act and to act on a sustained basis to try to erase

the damaging consequences of what happened there a month ago.

QUESTION (Sally Blythe, Radio Hong Kong);

You say that you will take into account the mood of the

changed atmosphere in Hong Kong when you go back to London but when

the British Cabinet is considering the proposals on nationality will

you perhaps be pushing for more radical alterations in the light of

your visit hore?

FOREIGE SECRETARY:

I do not disclose even in advance what I am going to say in

Cabinet. But I certainly have taken on board, as I think I had

already as a matter of fact, the extent of people's concern bere on

the right of abode question.

One thing that I can say is that the views of the people of

Hong Kong have been very effectively represented by the leaders of

Hong Kong's political establishment when they came to Britain a week

or two ago and they were made very clear to the members of the

Foreign Affairs Committee when they were here.

doubt about them, they have bean taken into account already.

So we are in no

QUESTION (Xias Blythe):

So what was the use of your visit if they have already been

taken into account?