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IFT HONG KONG RTHK 4 JULY 1989

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PORDIGE SUCRETARY:

There are all sorts of different things that we can try and

mobilise internationally. I have made one point today, if we can

get it internationally understood that it would be no good for Hong

Kong to have economic sanctions being imposed upon China, that is

one early proposition we can get.

But against the cataclysmic possibility of things going

really catastrophically wrong years out, the sooner we can begin

building some international understanding of that possibility and

gat people to focus on what they could do in those circumstances,

the bettor it would be.

INTERVIEWER:

But what are the logistical arrangements?

POKKIGE SECRETAKY:

Formidable and enormous.

INTERVIEWER:

And wurmountable?

PORBIGE SECRETAKY.

And horrendous. We all desperately must go on working to

prevent that happening but I think one can give some assurance if

one has said that people are being uskad to address themselves to

the possibility.