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Joint Declaration

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1984

Geoffrey Howe19 December 1984

Hong Kong · Government / Conservative Party Government

As Foreign Secretary and a principal British negotiator, Howe helps conclude the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which Margaret Thatcher and Zhao Ziyang sign in Beijing on 19 December 1984.

Names involved

Geoffrey Howe

Provenance

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