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PORRIGE SBC
IXT PARIS
BBC R4 PROGRAMI
31 JULY 89
INTERVIEWER:
union?
Have you yet taken a position on questions like monetary
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
They are matters we will come to in due course.
LITERVIEVER:
Turning to the reasons for you being in Paris here, you have
seen the Chinese Foreign Minister and you have agreed to resum talks on Hong Kong, but why are we resuming these contacts when the Buropean Community said there should be no high-level contacts with
China for the mount?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
Let me say at the outset that over the last few months there
is absolutely no doubt that events in China in the early part of
June damaged confidence in Hong Kong a lot. 1 care very much about
the future of Hong Kong and I think at this stage it is now time to
continue to talk again to the Chiness, to see to what extent we can
remove the uncertainties and concerns that are at present bothering
Hong Kong. With that in mind, I think it is time for the Joint
Liaison Group to meet again. I have agreed that they will do that
in Beptember; I have agreed there will be a further meeting before
the turn of the year, probably in Peking.
No comments yet.
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