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But these people too could be affected in a "worst case"

- We do not expect such a scenario to happen, and it is not sensible to speculate in any detail about such a hypothetical situation. In 1989 the then Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, told the Foreign Affairs Committee that if, against all our expectations, the worst were to happen after 1997 the United Kingdom, with its special responsibility for the colony, would have to respond to that. Needless to say the Government stands fully by that assurance.

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