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Sir S Y Chung's speech at JI Pengfei's
banquet on 18 December
I asked Sir S Y Chung during the flight from Peking to Hong Kong whether he had spoken at the banquet.
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Sir S Y Chung said that he had. The only point he had made which he thought might be controversial was to state that the people of Hong Kong would want to participate in the drafting of the Basic Law. Otherwise, he had said very much the same things as the Prime Minister in her speech at the Signature Ceremony,
3. Mr Lobo, who was sitting next to Sir S Y Chung, said that Sir S Y's speech had caused a certain stir at the banquet.
4. At the UMELCO lunch for the Prime Minister on 20 December, I asked Dr Henrietta IP about Sir S Y CHung's speech. She said that he had made a speech. He had said that the people of Hong Kong would want to participate in the drafting of the Basic Law. This had not seemed to upset any of the Chinese officials present. They had, however, been rather upset by the fact that Sir S Y Chung had spoken immediately after JI Pengfei, inspite of the fact that he was not on JI's right-hand side. Once he had spoken, Dr Harry FANG, who was on JI's right and had clearly been asked by the Chinese to respond to JI's speech, had spoken.
Dr IP said that Sir S Y Chung felt that he had made a mistake in making an unsolicited speech immediately
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