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P.C. HONG KONG

16 JAN 90

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QUESTION (HONG KONG ECONOMIC TIKĖS):

Do you think that the people included in the nationality

package Will have consular protection in Hong Kong after 1997?

FOREIGN SECRETARY;

Yes.

QUESTION (SAME MAI):

According to the view of..drafting in Hong Kong, do you

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think that the Bill of Rights should override all the other

ordinances in Hong Kong? You have said that Hong Kong has

shouldered a very big responsibility on the Vietnamese refugee

Do you think the British Government should pay all the

expenses in dealing with Vietnamese refugee problems in Hong Kong?

issue.

POREIGN SECRETARY :

On the Bill of Rights, discussion of that is proceeding in

Hong Kong through the institutions of Hong Kong. It was an idea

which I think started with my predecessor, Geoffrey Howe, when he

was here in July. I am glad it has been taken up. The nation

that somehow the text has been shown to the Chinese and they have

made representations against it has no basis so far as I know and I

am mystified as to how it arose. It is being discussed here in

Hong Kong.