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Wednesday, September 23, 1992
Transcript of the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Fatten speaking to the press after visiting Islands District
Governor:
AS YOU
One other thing which I'd like to say this afternoon. know, I've also been extremely keen to visit China and visit Peking as soon after my speech to the Legislative Council as possible. With that in mind, we cleared my diary for October so that it would be possible to find dates which were
were convenient for my Chinese. hosts and which were convenient for me as well. I also thought that it was extremely important and appropriately courteous to ensure that I visited China and Peking before visiting anywhere else. Originally my Chinese hosts suggested that I should visit Peking, as you know, from the 12th to
the 14th October, but it's
it's been announced today that the Party Congress starts October 12th and understandably that does create some administrative difficulties as far as visiting Peking as Governor at the same time is concerned. I understand quite a bit from my past experience about the problems of organising party conferences and congresses, because that as you know was a responsibility that I had in British politics. I'm very happy that the Chinese authorities have suggested alternative dates. We're going to be visiting Peking now later in October, and it looks as though the most convenient dates on both sides, the dates suggested by the Chinese authorities are from 21st to 23rd October. So we'll be putting back my visit by about ten days, but that will obviously be more suitable for the Chinese authorities because I understand it's likely to fall after the Congress. That's the dates we're looking at, at the moment, it involves some changes in my diary which I think we should be able to make. If there is any difficulty about that we'll obviously let you know, but I'm very pleased that the Chinese authorities have come back to US
so quickly and suggested ways in which
can deal with the problems that inevitably arose because of the timing of the Party Congress. And I think that an announcement along those lines will be made not only in Hong Kong this afternoon but also in Peking.
Q:
Do you
think your postponed visit to Beijing will be impact on the airport negotiations?
Governor:
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No.
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