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So what about their claim that no Hong Kong people were represented in the airport committee, Joint Liaison Group and they argue that the Hong Kong people, the airport will be paid by taxpayers in Hong Kong?
That is right and Hong Kong have built up through prudent management a very substantial financial reserve for exactly this sort of future to invest the taxpayers money into a
project that will benefit one's grandchildren as well as one's children. The agreement to set up a working
committee under the Joint Declaration and thus through the
Joint Liaison Group is another part of the Memorandum of Understanding. You will also find in there the Consultative Committee. The Hong Kong Government is very careful in seeking public opinion through all sorts of different means, as to what people in Hong Kong feel about a particular subject and I have talked at length with Sir David Wilson, the Governor, and with other members of the
Hong Kong Government about this and I am very impressed by the way in which they continue to seek public opinion. And of course there is the public opinion that comes through
LEGCO, that is one of the good things of LEGCO and that in
turn will change this September as a result of the
elections.
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A lot of media label John Major's visit to Bejing as with political implications, saying that John Major will be the first European leader to visit Bejing since the Tianamen
massacre in 1989 and they just wonder how the British
Government see the event in 1989. So can you describe the British Government view to us, the Tianamen massacre two
years ago?
What begs the credit, the main part behind your question is that we don't actually know when the Prime Minister is
going to be able to go, so we don't know whether he is
going to be the first Western leader or not. So that