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TRANSCRIPT D: FOREIGN SEC P.C.
HONG KONG
16 JAN 90
FROM JAMES LEE FOR COI RADIO TECHNICAL SERVICES
TRAISCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE
GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. DOUGLAS HURD,
IN HONG KONG,
ON TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY 1990
TRANSCRIPT D
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(CONTIWUED FROM TRANSCRIPT C)
QUESTION:
Secretary of State, has this trip helped you to make up your
mind on constitutional reform and how close are you to a decision?
Can we expect anything before the end of next month and is the
OMELCO proposal the most favourable one that you have had?
FOREIGE SECRETARY:
Yes, it has helped.
I have had many expressions of view.
I would not like to give the
They have not been unanimous,
ixpression that everything I have heard from Hong Kong Chinese on
this subject has been unanimous.
At the Joint Board I went to
yesterday afternoon, there was quite a division of view on this
particular subject, but certainly there is a very strong view
backing the ŬIELCO consENSUS, as you say.
What we have to establish is at what level and in what way we
can start the procedure, which clearly most people here want, for a
strong start for democracy in Hong Kong in 1991, how we can best
start that and maximise and increase to the greatest possible extent the prospect of that continuing aþd developing up to and beyond
1997.
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