1992-07-27 22:48 G.I.S
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
P.07/10
CORRECT.
WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
IS IT
CA E CHAN (ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS): THAT THE CHINESE SIDE INTEND TO DO THAT?
FOREIGN
SECRETARY:
PRESS
OCCASIONAL NO, I READ IT'S NOT ANYTHING OFFICIAL BUT IT REPORTS THAT THERE IS SOME LINKAGE. IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IN OUR VIEW THAT IS NOT WAY TO TACKLE MATTERS. HERE IS A LIMITED DIFFERENCE OF VIEW ON THE FINANCING OF THE AIRPORT ON WHICH THERE IS A GENERAL AGREEMENT, BUT ON THERE THIS LIMITED FINANCIAL MATTER, WHICH IS IMPORTANT BUT LIMITED, IS NOT AGREEMENT. THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON ITS MERITS. THERE ARE THIS ON ITS PROPOSALS, THERE ARE COUNTER-PROPOSALS, LET US SETTLE
IT WITH OTHER MERITS AND NOT TRY, EVEN IN SOME VAGUE WAY, TO LINK MATTERS; THAT WON'T WORK.
DANNY GITTINGS (SUNDAY POST):
ANY ARE THERE
PLANS, OR THE AIRPORT OR OTHER INDEED ANY LIKELIHOOD OF HONG KONG MATTERS ·
THE MATTERS BEING TAKEN UP AT PRIME MINISTERIAL LEVEL AGAIN WITHIN NEXT FEW MONTHS?
FINANCIAL SECRETARY:
THERE ARE NO PLANS
FOR
NEW
ᎢᎻᎪᎢ . I WILL HAVE A MEETING WITH THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER IN YORK IN SEPTEMBER, THAT IS PART OF THE PROCESS WHICH WAS AGREED, YOU'LL REMEMBER, IN THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. THE AIM OF THAT IS TO TRY AND SPUR ON THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP, TO TRY AND SPEED UP WORK THERE, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE HAVEN'T SETTLED THE EXACT AGENDA FOR THAT MEETING YET.
JONATHAN BRAUDE {SCMP):
WHO
COULD I WONDER, TELL ME WHETHER YOU ARE PLANNING TO HAVE ANY RESPONSE TO THE
LIKELY ARE
LOSE OUT ABOUT SPLIT-FAMILIES
YOU
ΤΟ
ON BRITISH
NATIONALITY?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
YES, I HAD A LETTER
FROM THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FAMILIES WHICH I SAW THIS MORNING, AND VERY DR CHUNG HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ME BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN WORKING HARD IN THAT DIRECTION. THIS QUESTION HAS GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME, I RECOGNISE THAT; 1'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE HOME SECRETARY TODAY IN AN HE WILL EFFORT ΤΟ SPEED IT ON AND HE HAS AUTHORISED ME TO SAY THAT LOOK SPEEDILY AND GENEROUSLY AT INDIVIDUAL CASES AS THEY COME
HIM.
BEFORE
1995
THE LEGISLATIVE PATRICIA
PO): LEUNG (WAH KIU YAT COUNCIL HAS VOTED FOR A 'ONE SEAT ONE VOTE' ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN BUT THE CHINESE SIDE FAVOURS THE 'MULTI-SEAT ONE VOTE' SYSTEM, SO WHEN YOU ARE CONSIDERING THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG, WOULD WEIGH HEAVIER?
WHICH OPINION?
WHICH
THE GOVERNOR:
·
WE'LL
HAVE TO METHOD FOR LISTEN TO THE VIEWS OF THE COMMUNITY ON THE RIGHT VOTING
SURE THAT 1995. AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, WHAT IS IMPERATIVE - AND I'M
TRANSITION WOULD ALL THOSE WHO ARGUE, QUITE PROPERLY, FOR A SMOOTH
A VOTING RECOGNISE THAT IT WAS IMPERATIVE
IT WAS IMPERATIVE IS TO SEE THAT WE HAVE
BY SYSTEM WHICH IS REGARDED AS FAIR, REGARDED AS EQUITABLE, NOT ONLY
WE HAVE TO HAVE A SYSTEM WHICH THOSE WHO WIN BUT BY THOSE WHO LOSE.
IS BROADLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A FAIR WAY OF ENSURING PARTICIPATION BY THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG.
MORE.
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TIME : 20:43:15