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4 JULY 1980

POREIGN SECYETARY:

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You do an injustice if you think we are sürü.

to ast

The various points that I have been making in responsa

just questions but in this Press Conference, is that the confidence in that commitment and in that pledge has been very severely damaged and actions oî ìùe ìind you identified bava dono nothing to repair

that damage.

That 16 why one of the central massages to get through to tha Chinese leadership is that, quite apart from what they do for and to their own people in mainland Chine, if they are to achieve anything towards the restoration of confidence in the Declaration and in tha

one country/imʊ uyvium piúposition, than they mood to apply themaives from now un lu au activa âgeùda oí dasdo not woorde to begin restoring that confidence and I am very conscious of the fact, as somebody painted out, that that is taking place within a time- scale much constrained compared with the start of the process ter

& back.

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QUESTION (SAMH LADY) :

But what i was asking was how could you put your mind at asee

in handing over all 6 million people back to China without such

guaroûtee that they will honour the Joint Declaration?

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