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get Hong Kong businessmen to the United States to lobby for its renewal. Chancellor Kohl endorsed this point. Could he help? He would do so willingly. There was still a lot of heart- searching in Germany about Tiananmen Square, and some popular campaigning about human rights in China. He endorsed the view put forward by President Gorbachev.
President Bush said that in the United States there was an unusual coalition of the right wing who were anti-China, and the left wing who were concerned about human rights. They were forgetting important interests like Hong Kong and student exchanges, and risked screwing up an important relationship.
South Africa
President Gorbachev raised South Africa and asked when the international community should move. Should it move now? The Prime Minister said it should. All the main pillars of apartheid had fallen. He had kept in close touch with President de Klerk and the ANC, and had no doubt that they both wanted to carry the constitutional debate further. He described the positive attitude taken by the ANC to South Africa's readmission to the Olympic Movement and the active help of the ANC in securing South Africa's readmittance to the ICC. The Prime Minister spoke of the risk that the Commonwealth would get left behind by the EC and the United States, though he thought it possible that a common view might be taken by the Commonwealth before CHOGM.
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Mr. Mulroney agreed with this assessment, speaking in similar terms to those he had used to the Prime Minister on Sunday. However, when President Mitterrand commented that we should not get ahead of the music, Mr. Mulroney pointed out that Mandela took a different line on sanctions generally from the one he had taken on sporting contacts. President Bush's decision on sanctions had, Mr. Mulroney thought, been a bit previous.
President Mitterrand said it was right to start with sports sanctions, but something more substantial was required from de Klerk before the lifting of all sanctions. France had been rather reluctant to accept sanctions in the first place, but thought in retrospect that they had proved effective. repeated that we should not get ahead of the music.
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The meeting had to close at this point because President Mitterrand had to leave to catch his plane, as did Chancellor
Kohl.
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J.S. WALL
Richard Gozney, Esq.,
Foreign and Commonwealth office.
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