03-HPR-1991 08:23
Gallagher
0491 410631
P.04/05
FOREIGN SECRETARY
DST
HONG KONG OMELCO
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3 APRIL 1991
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Kaitak which will increase as the years pass
SO that is a very
important point and it is in the interests of China as well as of
Hong Kong that there should be a new airport, the question is in
what circumstances can that be achieved and I very much hope that
it can be achieved in circumstances which leave the necessary
decisions and the control of the project in the hands which under
the Joint Declaration it belongs to, namely that of the Government
of Hong Kong. And that I believe can be achieved, at least I hope
it can be achieved, with due regard for
views which the
Government of China is entitled to express.
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the
QUESTION:
What did OMELCO think about it?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
There was a wide range of views in OMELCO,
OMELCO, there was no
consensus on these matters, I would not expect it to be, OMELCO is
a body which includes people with very different opinions and they
almost all I think found their voices today.
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