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Can I first start with asking you about the latest Hong Kong development, which is the airport project, there has been quite a hiccup with previous talks, and the Chinese admit to describing the airport hurdle recently as only small rivers flat hills, meaning its only a small hurdle. How does the British side actually see it? Are we going to see any breakthrough at all?
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A: Well we sincerely hope so. There's a lot of common
ground between China, the Hong Kong government and the British government and there's obviously no dispute between the Hong Kong government and the British
government on this. But there are some technical details which we are still working out with the Chinese. These last lot of talks came to an end, as it was predicted that they would, for a certain length of time.
So we still have some work to do and will continue
talking to the Chinese. But when one looks at it in the broader picture, it is agreed by both sides that a new airport in Hong Kong is needed. That Kai Tak is going to reach saturation point and therefore one is working
out the details. And often in negotiations it is always the details that take the longest point of the agreement to work out.
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So you are saying this is not the deadlock, this is not
the end of the road, we are still going to see some
progress?
We still will be talking to the Chinese, yes of course,
And that was made clear at the end of the talks.
So it is not the end of the road. We are going not to