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» Thursday, January 17, 2008

China/India Visit

Put that some Conservative MEP’s had criticised the Prime Minister for going to the Olympic Stadium and had argued for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games, the PMS said that he had not seen the statement, so he would not comment on either a statement he had not seen or a statement made by the opposition. The PMS added that he thought it was clear that the Prime Minister had no intention of supporting a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Put that the MEP’s had raised the idea of a boycott on the grounds of China’s appalling human rights record and would the Prime Minister be raising the subject of human rights on this trip, the PMS said that as the Prime Minister had mentioned in his ITN interview on Tuesday, he would be raising the issue of human rights.

Asked which human rights issues the Prime Minister would be raising, the PMS said that he would be raising the issue of human rights and if there was anything specific that the Prime Minister wanted to say, people would have an opportunity to ask him.

Asked if the Prime Minister had considered taking the First Minister of Scotland with him on the visit, the PMS said the Prime Minister was visiting China and India in his capacity as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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