SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1984
LONGER MEETINGS HELD IN PEKING: GOVERNOR
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SPEAKING AT THE AIRPORT ON HIS RETURN FROM PÉKING TODAY (SUNDAY), SAID:
+GOOD MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. I AM SORRY TO BRING YOU OUT ON A SUNDAY MORNING. BUT SINCE IT IS RAINING SO HARD, PER HAPS YOU DON'T MIND TOO MUCH.
*WELL, THIS WAS THE FIRST ROUND OF TALKS FOLLOWING THE VISIT TO PEKING BY SIR GEOFFREY HOWE AND WE HAD PLENTY TO DO IN FOLLOWING UP THE TALKS WITH THE CHINESE LEADERS WHICH HE HAD THERE.
+YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME OF OUR MEETINGS RAN ON A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL, AND WE ALSO CONTINUED OUR INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS OVER THE DINNER WHICH SIR RICHARD GAVE LAST NIGHT.
+ON THE CONTENT OF THE TALKS AND THE WAY AHEAD, YOU ALL HAVE SEEN SIR GEOFFREY'S STATEMENT AND PRESS CONFERENCE, AND THERE IS NOTHING I CAN ADD TO THAT AT THIS STAGE.
+ BUT THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF WORK TO BE DONE, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE | SHALL BE GOING BACK TO PEKING IN ABOUT 10 DAYS' TIME.
+ IN THE MEANTIME, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ANOTHER GUEST, ANOTHER MINISTER - -- MR JOHN STANLEY WHO ARRIVED FROM CHINA THIS MORNING. SO IF YOU WILL EXCUSE ME, I WILL GO AND CATCH UP AND SEE IF I CAN MEET HIM.*
SIR EDWARD WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SIR SZE-YUEN CHUNG, THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR ROGER LOBO, AND THE VICE- CHIEF EDITOR OF THE XINHUA NEWS AGENCY (HONG KONG BRANCH), MR TAN GAN.
AG STRESSES PUBLIC ROLE IN FIGHT AGAINST CRIME
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HONG KONG IS WELL SERVED BY ITS POLICE FORCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME AND IN COMPARATIVE TERMS SHOWS UP FAVOURABLY WHEN COMPARED WITH OTHER MODERN CITIES AND TERRITORIES.
THIS WAS STATED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON MICHAEL THOMAS, IN HIS ADDRESS AT THE GOOD CITIZEN AWARD PRESENTATION CEREMONY HELD AT AP LEI CHAU COMMUNITY HALL THIS (SUNDAY) AFTERNOON.
+BUT IF THE POLICE ARE TO BE AT THEIR MOST EFFECTIVE THEY MUST HAVE THE OTHER AGENCIES OF GOVERNMENT AND THE WHOLE COMMUNITY BEHIND THEM,+ HE SAID.
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