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FOREIGN SUC INT

BRIAN HAYES SHOW LBC

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17 MAY 1989

BRIAN HAYNS;

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MKD 30111

So it would not take, really, all that much for you to meet

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your Argentinian counterpart for discussions of some kind as long as

there was the agreement, which has always been our position, that

there would be nù discussion on sovereignty itself?

FOREIGN SECRETARY:

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Sovereignty is excluded from the negotiations and if we

talking about how to get back into more normal trading relations and

the rest of it, then it should be possible to make progress, but we

have never had a positive indication in response to those offers

from the Argentinian side.

GIDEON:

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Good morning, Sir Geoffrey!

FOREIGN SECRETARY:

Good morning!

GIDEON:

I just want to ask you why the British Government has so far

been depriving the Hong Kong people of a representative government.

and knowing that Hong Kong will become part of China by 1997, I mean

the slow pace of introducing any form of democratic government is

still far far away.

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