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JAMES LEE

FOREIGN SECRETARY

P.82 PS/Mr. Patter

INTERVI EN ITN LONDON 24 APRIL 1992

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GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. DOUGLAS HURD,

IN LONDON

ON FRIDAY, 24 APRIL 1992

(INTERVIEWED ON ITN)

INTERVIEWER:

Nr. Hurd, should the Chinese regard the appointment of what is a

high-profile career politician to this important post as in any

sense a change in British policy towards Hong Kong?

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FORET GN SECRETARY:

No, they should not.

There is absolute continuity of British

policy which is made by the British Government in the interests of

Hong Kong.

INTERVIENER:

But you are clearly raising the profile of Hong Kong.

FOREIGN SECRETARY:

We are and that is because people in Hong Kong have been somewhat worried that in the last five years of British rule we might push

the subject away from us, forget it, and we have answered that by

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