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The author of your editorial of 24 January evidently
cares deeply about Hong Kong and its people. So do I.
That is why I found it particularly disturbing that he
should have shown such scant regard for the facts.
I played a leading role in the negotiations which
culminated in the signing of the Sino British Joint
Declaration on Hong Kong in 1984. I have continued to
attach the highest possible priority to the full and
faithful implementation of that agreement.
I must
therefore intervene to dispel the profound misconceptions
about Britain's role in Hong Kong.
The editorial makes a number of misleading
assertions about what the Joint Declaration says about
representative government in Hong Kong. It implies that
detailed, specific
we
are now reneging from/promises given in that document.
What are the fagte?
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