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depends on his diary and fitting in with the Chinese Government's timetable as to when he is going to go, so we can't say at this stage whether he is going to be the
first, the second, the third or the fourth or the last
Western leader to go to China. What is right is that he will go and sign this very important Memorandum of Understanding which is for the benefit of Hong Kong. We have made perfectly clear our views on Tianamen Square and what happened there in 1989 and we haven't changed those views at all. But every time I have been to Hong Kong, everybody I have spoken to about the future in Hong Kong have all said to me that what is important is that you must actually have a working relationship with China. It is very important for the long-term continuity of Hong Kong, for the smooth transfer of sovereignty in 1997, that there is a good working relationship with China. That is right, not only from Hong Kong's point of view but from the world's point of view, both Britain and China are members of the P5, there is a lot going on in the world like Cambodia, we have to work very closely together to achieve a settlement there, in the Middle East, in the sanctions against Iraq and the aggressive incidents of Saddam Hussein, so we have been working very closely with China, so has Russia, so has America, so has France. It is important that we continue that, not only from the world point of view and our work in the P5, but also from Hong Kong's point of view because clearly, I will go back to what people have said to me, because that is what is important to bring stability, to bring certainty to Hong Kong. Now we have just been through seven months of uncertainty particularly over the airport. Now that has been crystalised we have certainty, it has helped enormously in Hong Kong.
So you mentioned the British Government's view towards Tianamen hasn't changed, so what is the British Government's view towards Tianamen?
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