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GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG AND MR PATTEN: PHOTO-OPPORTUNITY
27 APRIL 1992
Mr Patten
PS/Mr. Petten
11.
Thatten,
Reared of your
craments.
I'm absolutely delighted to have the opportunity of a talk with the Governor and will be having further discussions
during the week. It's obviously exceptionally important for
me to start as rapidly as possible on the learning curveon
which I'm embarked and I could start nowhere better than
talking to someone that I've known for over a decade, the present Governor on whose splendid work in Hong Kong I'm looking forward to build. This obviously isn't the time for a more detailed statement than that but it is a great
pleasure to meet the Governor this morning and I'm looking
forward to further talks with him. Thank you very much
indeed.
hard
Sir David Wilson
Now I'll only do a very, very short piece that I said when
Mr Chris Patten was appointed to be my successor how very
much I welcomed his appointment as my successor and today
it's been very nice to have an opportunity to discuss some
of the issues involved and to explain to Mr Patten that Hong
Kong is a very splendid place, being Governor of Hong Kong
is one of the most interesting, worthwhile jobs in the
world, that it's not easy but it is a tremendous job to do
and we have a lot of things to talk about because there are
an awful lot of issues in Hong Kong and a lot of things
which we will need to discuss over the next few days. Thank
you.
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Mr Patten
Thank you very much indeed. I'm greatly looking forward to
starting work.
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