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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1993
TALKS
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MR STEPHEN CHRONG: GOVERNOR, IT'S VERY DISAPPOINTING THAT THERE IS TALK BEING ANNOUNCED TODAY, AND SHOULD FURTHER ATTEMPTS PUR WILL
GOVERNOR PLEASE INFORM THIS COUNCIL HOW YOU, SIR, AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, IS TO ENSURE A SMOOTH TRANSITION PROMISED TO US IN THE JOINT DECLARATION WILL HAPPEN IF CONTINUITY OF SYSTEMS CANNOT BE GUARANTEED? AND WILL THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DO YOUR OWN THING BETWEEN NOW AND 1997 AND THEN LET THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT DO THEIR OWN THING AFTER 1997?
GOVERNOR: 1 MOULD SNOOTH
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HAMALIDADES
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TO SEE, AS MUCH AS TRANSITION. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A SMOOTH TRANSITION ARRANGEMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR ELECTIONG
11 ARE FAIR RATHER THA SMOOTH TRANSITION OF ARRANGEMENTS WHICH WEREN'T FAIR. IT WOULDN'T SEEM TO ME TO MAKE VERY MUCH SENSE TO HAVE A SMOOTH TRANSITION OF ARRANGEMENTS WHICH THIS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND WHICH THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE MIGHT REGARD AS DISHONOURABLE. SO WE WANT TO SEE A SMOOTH TRANSITION BUT WE ALSO WANT TO SEE A SMOOTH TRANSITION
OF SENSIBLE ELECTORAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS.
THERE IS ONE OTHER THING THAT I SHOULD SAY. IN ORDER TO SECURE A SMOOTH TRANSITION IT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT TO BE AS ACCOMMODATING AND CONCILIATORY AS ONE. POSSIBLY CAN BE. WHILE MILLIONS. OF WORDS. OF ABUSE. HAVE BEEN HEAPED ON THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND THE HONG KONG GOVERNOR OVER THE LAST MONTHS, I'VE TRIED TO KEEP AS MILD AND QUIET AND CALM AS POSSIBLE.
BUT NOBODY SHOULD THINK THAT BEING ACCOMMODATING, BEING CONCILIATORY IS THE SAME AS ABANDONING YOUR PRINCIPLES. I THINK THAT THIS COUNCIL WOULD BE SURPRISED TO DISCOVER THAT WHAT IS MEANT BY A SMOOTH TRANSITION IS THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND THE HONG KONG PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER, IN DISCUSSIONS, HAVE A BOTTOM LINE. THAT'S NOT THE BASIS FOR A SENSIBLE SMOOTH TRANSITION.
MR
STEPHEN
QUESTION.
OF CHEONG: SIR, YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED MY SECOND PART
THE
GOVERNOR: WHICH WAS?
MR STEPHEN CHEONG: WILL THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DO THEIR OWN THING NOW AND LET THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT DO THEIR OWN THING AFTER 19977
GOVERNOR: WHAT WE WILL ATTEMPT TO DO IS TO PUT IN PLACE ARRANGEMENTS, NOT ONLY WHICH ARE WHOLLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE JOINT DECLARATION BUT WHICH SEEK ΤΟ BUTTRESS THE PRINCIPLES ENSHRINED IN THE JOINT DECLARATION. WE WILL ALSO TRY TO ENSURE THAT WHATEVER ARRANGEMENTS ARE PUT IN PLACE IN HONG KONG AND ENSURE IN OUR VIEW AND IN THE OF THIS COUNCIL, A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO THE BASIC LAW. AND MUCH HOPE THAT THE SORT OF ARRANGEMENTS WHICH THIS COUNCIL WOULD ACCEPTABLE BEFORE 1997 WILL BE FOUND ACCEPTABLE BY A CREDIBLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AFTER 1997, Too.
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