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DEC 31 '85 17:45 GIS HK GIS/1/2/1998 ·
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES MEETS THE PRESS
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MS CHEUNG MAN-YEE:
Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
Sorry about the early timing but the Chief Secretary has a very busy
schedule, we have to start early this time.
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This is the third session of the
bi-monthly briefing, and it ties very well with
the end of the year review which a lot of you have asked for, if not, individually, each organisation, we can give it altogether now this morning, and here's Sir David.
This is not a formal press conference
so we don't have to adhere to the photo session, or things like that. Once you have settled down, I suppose, you can take photographs.
SIR DAVID:
Well as Man-yee says, it doesn't
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seem like three months since I was last here, but I was actually last
And of course, 20 here on, I think it's 8th October, so it is very nearly three months.
during the three months there has been a tremendous lot of public
debate, and debate in the media, about Hong Kong's development in
almost every field. So I don't think I am going to look back this morning in these opening remarks, at the immense amount of activity that has taken place over the last 12 months, but perhaps to look
forward a bit, into 1986, and to see where we stand, perhaps very briefly, in this sort of not a very rigid environment this morning,
and where we stand at the threshold of 1986.
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I suppose a very important thing, for 1986, is, as the Financial Secretary said the other day, that we will move into, once more, an era of a balanced budget in Hong Kọng.
And this is enormously important for the proper management of our economy and our resources. So after three years of deficit. we will,
move into a balanced budget.
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