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FOREIGN SECRETARY

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HONG KONG

EXCO

3 APRIL 1991

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FROM EGMG FOR COI RADIO TECHNICAL SERVICES

TRANSCRIPT OF DOORSTEP INTERVIEW

GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR DOUGLAS HURD,

AFTER HIS MEETING WITH EXCO

IN HONG KONG

ON WEDNESDAY, 3.APRIL 1991

FOREIGN SECRETARY:

I took the advantage of this meeting to ask the Executive

Council for their views and advice en various matters concerning the

British Government at the moment and in particular of course the

various things that will come up on my visit to Peking, it was

private meeting so you will not expect me to say what advice they gave me but from my point of view it was a very useful discussion

and I go away wiser from it.

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QUESTION:

What message will you be bringing up to Peking?

FOREIGN SECRETARY:

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We talked about that a bit yesterday and we will talk about

Ι it in Peking and when come

back here, but really I wil7

discussing the choice, whether we intensify cooperation during this

second phase up to 1997 or whether we are content with stagnation

in the and obviously we believe,

believe, and I think Hong Kong believes,

importance of intensified cooperation, cooperation and consultation

not being the same as control.

(END OF TRANSCRIPT)