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INFO ROUTINE HKGO LONDON, PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
INFO ROUTINE HKGO WASHINGTON, HKGO NEW YORK, HKGO SAN FRANCISCO INFO ROUTINE HKGO GENEVA, UKMIS GENEVA
PART TWO OF TWO
HONG KONG FUTURE: PRESS COVERAGE: (29.4 - 10.5)
ZHOU NAN
22. ZHOU NAN'S REMARKS THAT HE WAS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE CURRENT TALKS WERE ACCORDED PROMINENT COVERAGE (3.5). HE SAID AS LONG AS THE TWO SIDES HAD THE SAME SINCERITY, EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTIONS COULD BE RESOLVED. ZHOU REPEATED JIANG ENZHU'S COMMENT THAT THE TALKS WERE PROCEEDING NORMALLY.
CHEN ZIYING
23. REMARKS BY HKMAO VICE DIRECTOR CHEN ZIYING ON THE TALKS WHILE MEETING A LABOUR DELEGATION FROM HK WERE WIDELY NOTED (30.4). HE SAID THERE WERE MANY THINGS CONCERNING THE 1994/95 ELECTIONS WHICH REQUIRED TO BE DISCUSSED AND WHICH COULD NOT BE RESOLVED WITHIN TWO ROUNDS. IT WAS LIKE CLIMBING THE GREAT WALL IN CHINA: TO REACH THE PEAK ONE WOULD HAVE TO STRIVE HARD. ON THE CIVIL SERVICE, MR CHAN SAID THE EXISTING SYSTEM WOULD NOT BE CHANGED AND CIVIL SERVANTS SHOULD STAY ON AFTER 1997.
24. MR CHEN SAID (8.5) IN MACAU HE HOPED THE LC WOULD ACHIEVE GOOD RESULTS. AS FOR WHEN THE NEXT AIRPORT COMMITTEE MEETING WOULD BE HELD, MR CHEN SAID THE KEY CONSIDERATION WAS WHETHER THE BRITISH SIDE COULD COME UP WITH A NEW FINANCIAL PACKAGE THAT WAS IN LINE WITH THE MOU.
DENG XIAOPING
25. AN ARTICLE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF MIRROR MAGAZINE REPORTED (5.5) DENG XIAOPING HAD INSTRUCTED THAT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTION, CHINA COULD BE SOFT, ON THE SALES OF ARMS, THEY COULD BE TOUGH OR SOFT: BUT ON HK, THEY SHOULD HE TOUGH AND ON TAIWAN THEY SHOULD BE SOFT AND TOUGH. ON RESOLVING THE CHINA/US TRADE FRICTIONS, MR DENG PRAISED VICE PREMIER LI LANQUING'S TACTICS OF
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