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HUNG BURG 16 JAN VU

FOREIGN SECRETARY:

I think I have already anspered, as far as I can, the

questions about the state of the qraft Basic Law. ve are not

negotiators round that table, we have taken opportunities and will

continue so long as that is possiḥle, to express our viewa

privately about the content of the Law and we have taken the

opportunity to express to the Chinese certain opinions which we

have forwarded because we have received them from here.

QUESTION:

Do you

Do you view your trip as a successful PR exercise?

think that is a fair judgment and what are the main priorities that

you will carry back to London?

PORRIGE SECRETARY:

It is a bard life, is it not? If you do not see the media,

if you dash past them at all the street corners where you have

collected in the rain sometimes, if you do all that you are accused

of being haughty, arrogant, and neglectful.

If you do pause and

answer questions at every street corner you are told you are on a

PR trip!

I have long ago learned you cannot win in these exchanges, I

have tried to do my best and I will carry back to London a lot of

very specific opinions which are obviously much more vivid if they

are expressed to you directly, a lot of very specific opinions, not

all of them harmonious, not all of them the same, but also au