SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1983
GOVERNOR REITERATES DETERMINATION
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, TODAY (SUNDAY) REITERATED THE CETERMINATION THAT THE UTMOST WOULD BE DONE TO BRING THE TALKS ON THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION.
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT KAI TAK AIRPORT ON HIS RETURN FROM LONDON AFTER FURTHER CONSULTATIONS ON THE TALKS, SIR EDWARD SAID + AND THE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WERE VERY WARMLY RECEIVED.
+THE ATMOSPHERE WAS POSITIVE AND OUR DISCUSSIONS SHOWED COMPLETE AGREEMENT ON THE ISSUES INVOLVED, HE SAID.
+1 THINK IT WILL BE EVIDENT TO YOU AS YOU LOOK AROUND THAT WE'VE ALL COME BACK IN VERY GOOD SPIRITS.
+E WERE VERY GRATEFUL TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND HER OTHER MINISTERIAL COLLEAGUES FOR THIS FURTHER OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THINGS WITH THEM, HE SAID,
SIR EDWARD ADDED THAT SIR PERCY CRADOCK, THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO PEKING, WAS VERY FULLY INVOLVED IN THE DISCUSSIONS.
+HE WILL BE RETURNING TO PEKING EARLY NEXT WEEK AND SHALL BE JOINING HIM THERE FOR THE NEXT ROUND THE FOLLOWING WEEK, HE SAID.
RETURNING WITH THE GOVERNOR THIS AFTERNOON WERE EIGHT UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL -- SIR SZE-YUEN CHUNG, MR OSWALD CHEUNG, MR ROGER LOBO, MR LI FOOK-WO, MR LO TAK-SHING, MISS LYDIA DUNN, MR CHEN SHOU-LUM AND MISS MARIA TAM.
THE PARTY WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE.
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