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POLITICAL DIRECTOR'S VISIT TO SWEDEN: 17 JUNE
Background
1.
The Swedish Prime Minister visited Hong Kong at the
beginning of April and Qian Qichen visited Stockholm in early
May.
Mr Bildt commented helpfully on Hong Kong publicly, and in
private to the Chinese, e.g. he told the Foreign
2.
Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong on 6 April of Sweden's
"clear interest in Hong Kong as a centre for an increasingly
important economic region....." and of Sweden's belief "that a
people that asks for a greater say in the running of its own
affairs must never be denied this" and that "history clearly
shows, that......there is no better guarantee for stability
than democracy and the rule of law."
3. The Swedes briefed us in Hong Kong on exchanges between
Bildt and Qian Qichen in Stockholm; Bildt had said that China
should agree to increase democracy in Hong Kong as this would
be in accordance with the concept of one country two systems. He had made the point that China should also take seriously worries in Hong Kong which were grounded in the events of June
1989.
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