The World - News from June 30, 1986
Talks between China and Portugal began today on ending more than 400 years of foreign rule over Macao, the six-square-mile Portuguese territory on China’s southern coast and the oldest Western settlement in Asia. In 1979, Portugal unilaterally declared the enclave to be Chinese territory under Portuguese administration. Peking has promised to follow the same “one-country, two systems” arrangement that was used in the Sino-British accord on Hong Kong.
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