FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987
GOVERNOR TO BRIEF UK OFFICIALS ON HK DEVELOPMENTS
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID LAST (FRIDAY) NIGHT THAT WHILE IN LONDON HE WOULD BE BRIEFING SENIOR OFFICIALS ON THE RECENT DEBATE ON THE GREEN PAPER AND WOULD BE BRINGING THEM UP-TO-DATE ON LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN HONG KONG.
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT THE AIRPORT, SIR DAVID SAID IT WOULD BE THE FIRST CHANCE FOR HIM TO PERSONALLY BRIEF THE
OF SECRETARY STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, SIR GEOFFREY HOWE, SINCE HE HAD BEEN HERË.
"I WILL BE BRINGING SIR GEOFFREY UP-TO-DATE PERSONALLY THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE HERE. I WOULDN'T ANY ONE PARTICULAR TOPIC OUT OF THAT."
ON ALL SELECT
TO
SIR DAVID SAID IT WOULD ALSO BE A VERY GOOD CHANCE FOR HIM
FOR MEET AGAIN LORD GLENARTHUR, THE NEW MINISTER OF STATE RESPONSIBLE
ON WHAT HAD BEEN HONG KONG AFFAIRS, AND TO BRIEF HIM
HAPPENING HERE
RECENTLY.
"FOR THE REST OF THE TIME, I SHALL BE TALKING TO PEOPLE IN THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS OFFICE AND
OF MEETING MEMBERS PARLIAMENT WHO TAKE AN INTEREST IN HONG KONG AFFAIRS AND SEEING PEOPLE OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE.'
SIR DAVID SAID HE WOULD ALSO BE TALKING ΤΟ ABOUT THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE DEBATE ON THE GREEN TELLING THEM ABOUT THE LEGCO DEBATE IN THE LAST TWO DAYS.
MINISTERS
PAPER AND
WAS NOTING THAT IT
A VERY GOOD DEBATE WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEWS PUT FORWARD WHICH HAD BEEN VERY WELL ARGUED, HE URGED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT THEIR VIEWS.
WILL "I HOPE NOW THE GENERAL PUBLIC
PUT IN THEIR VIEWS AS LEGCO DID OVER SERIOUSLY AND AS CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT AS MEMBERS OF THE LAST TWO DAYS," HE SAID.
ON THE QUESTION OF
VIETNAMESE
REFUGEES, SIR DAVID SAID HE WOULD BE MENTIONING THE SUBJECT WHILE MEETING THE FOREIGN SECRETARY.
"IT'S A VERY LARGE PROBLEM.
IT'S A GROWING PROBLEM.
NO OBVIOUS SOLUTION IN SIGHT, BUT WE REALLY MUST WORK FOR A AND DURABLE SOLUTION TO IT.
"IT IS A PROBLEM WHICH HAS BEEN WITH US FOR A AT THE MOMENT, IT'S GETTING SLIGHTLY WORSE," HE SAID.
W
THERE 18 LONG-TERM
LONG TIME, AND
SECRETARY,
MR
DAVID
AND
THE CHIEF THE GOVERNOR WAS SEEN OFF BY FORD, THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SIR S.Y. CHUNG, THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MISS LYDIA DUNN.
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