1991-08-02 16:33 COMMS OFFICE (GOVT HOUSE)
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From: Sir David wi.son GCMG bec
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE HONG KONG
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22 July 1991
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Thank you for your telegram of 17 July.
The group of Chinese students to whom you refer were coming to Hong Kong to take part in a conference where the subject was an exchange of experiences on the promotion of democracy in China. The reason they were denied entry to Hong Kong was that we have a long-standing policy not to allow outsiders to use the territory as a battleground for their own political battles. Hong Kong residents a::e of course free to express their views within the aw, and the Hong Kong Government made no attempt to dissuade our own students from holding their conference. I attach great importance both to maintaining the freedom of the people of Hong Kong to act as they wish within the law and to not allow the interests of the people of Hong Kong to be put at risk by the activities of others.
Once the overseas students had been denied entry to Hong Kong, arrangements were made for them to leave. Most of them did so. A small group refused to leave at first and remained at Kai Fak airport for several days. But they were free to leave Hong Kong at any time.
You may wish to know tha: of those denied entry,
He was travelling only one came from the United States. on a US re-entry permit. Most of the others were carrying (PRC passports with transit visas. In Hong Kong, as elsewhere in the world, the possession of a visa does not automatically confer the right to enter the country or territory concerned.
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