14-JUL-1993 16:30
JAMES LEE
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MR. ALASTAIR GOODĽAD
FOREIGN AFFAIRS SELECT
COMMITTEE
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14 JULY 1993
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My own experience of the officials in the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office during the year I have been there is that they are very far
from supine.
CHAIRMAN:
But might you not have been a bit tougher in the 1984 Agreement,
looking back over the succeeding years?
MR. ALASTAIR GOODLAD:
I think it is very difficult to second-guess history. It may be
that we played our negotiating hand better than anyboây could have
done it; it may be that we didn't. I don't think there is any
evidence on which you can form an objective judgement.
MR. DAVID SUMBERG:
I just wanted to look a little just for a minute at the stability
of China. When you and I, Minister, as north-west Members, hear
the presentation of Manchester's Olympic bid, we are told that the
Olympic Committee won't accept Beijing because no-one could say
what the position will be in the year 2000 and the Olympic
Committee like to have stability when they allocate the games.
When you are looking at China now from the point of view of
British businessmen who have to deal with the PRC and the Foreign Office, how stable economically and politically do you view the
country?
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