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12. The Prime Minister explained that the UK would be letting in around 200,000 Hong Kong citizens: administrators who had loyally served the Hong Kong Government and to whom we were thus indebted, and top entrepreneurs, whom we wanted to stay on but who needed an insurance policy against the event that things went wrong.
13. But there could be young professionals who might want to leave, and there would be no difficulty from the UK view point if, in order to help her restructuring, Hungary were to offer them passports.
Further Contacts
14. In conclusion, Dr Antall said that his forthcoming visits to the Conservative Party Conference and the Paris CSCE Summit would enable him and the Prime Minister to keep in close touch. The Prime Minister said that the election of the only centre-right Government in Central and Eastern Europe was something that merited top-level attention, and that was how the British Government would continue to approach relations with Hungary.
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The meeting concluded at 1045 hours.
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