Speech by the Secretary for Trade and Industry at the Signing Ceremony of
the Agreement between the Government of Hong Kong and the Government of Australia for the Promotion and Protection of Investments and
the Agreement between the Government of Hong Kong and the Government of Australia concerning Air Services
on 15 September 1993
Senator Cook, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It
ceremony
for
is my great pleasure
the signing of two Agreements between
to
welcome you
to this
the
Government of Australia and the Government of Hong Kong :
an
Agreement
for the Promotion and
Protection
of
I would like
Investments and an Agreement on Air Services.
to extend a very warm welcome to my counterpart, Senator
Peter Cook, the Minister for Trade of Australia.
Today's
event and Senator Cook's visit to Hong Kong underline the
importance
Australia.
of the
relationship
between
Kong Hong
and
2.
The emergence of Hong Kong in the last quarter of
the twentieth century as опе of the leading economies in
the
and
as
a major
international
region Asia-Pacific
business, financial, trading and communications centre owes the very substantial investment, both foreign and
much
domestic, that has been made here to create the
business
enormous
opportunities to
be found
in Hong Kong today,
including investment to ensure that those opportunities are
facilitated by superior infrastructure
human.
both physical and