H.E. THE WAY IN WHICH THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WILL LOOK AT THIS,

WILL TRY TO REACH

THEY A DECISION WHICH I'M SURE, IS THAT THEY

PEOPLE OF HONG KONG. IN BELIEVE TO BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE

WILL WEIGH VERY HRAVILY THAT, THE VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG

PRECISE SORT OF INDEED. I DON'T THINK I CAN WEIGH A VIEW, GIVE IT A

SAY IS THAT THE VIEWS OF THE NUMBER OF KILOGRAMS. BUT ALL I CAN

TAKEN PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, WE SAID RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING, WOULD BE

THAT, THE GOVERNMENT WILL FULLY INTO ACCOUNT. THE GOVERNMENT MEANT CARRY OUT THAT COMMITMENT.

IS THERE ANY REASON WHY GOVERNMENT COULDN'T CLEARLY THE SITUATION HAD CHANGED DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988 WERE NOT CHINA'S OWN FEELINGS TOWARDS

JANE HUTCHEON, OF RTHK: SIR DAVID, BEFORE THE GREEN PAPER CONSULTATION EXERCISE THE HAVE TOLD THE PUBLIC SIMPLY AND SINCE THE WHITE PAPER AND THAT POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE BASIC LAW AND THE TIMING OF DIRECT ELECTIONS?

IT TWO CLEAR COMMITMENTS,

1987

H.E. THE 1984 WHITE PAPER HAD IN THREE CLEAR COMMITMENTS. ONE WAS THAT THERE WOULD BE A REVIEW IN

THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL OF

THE 1988, AND THAT WAS PUT FORWARD FROM

WHETHER THERE SECOND WAS THAT THE REVIEW WOULD COVER THE QUESTION OF

BE AN SHOULD

OF ELEMENT

DIRECT ELECTIONS INTRODUCED INTO THE

THIRD

THE WAS THAT THE POSITION OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND THE

SHOULD ALSO BE GOVERNOR AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

WAS COVERED IN THAT REVIEW. THEREFORE, THE GOVERNMENT THOUGHT THAT IT

THINGS WHICH THOSE

THOSE TWO BEEN, RIGHT TO PUT FORWARD ALL

AND THAT IT THINGS WHICH HAD BEEN PROMISED IN THE 1987 GREEN PAPER,

IS EXCLUDED RIGHT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RIGHT TO SAY THAT SOMETHING

VIEWS FROM THE BEGINNING. THE CORRECT COURSE WAS TO FIND OUT WHAT THE OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WERE ON THOSE ISSUES.

HAD

CHANGED IN THAT THE JANE HUTCHEON: BUT IF THE SITUATION HAD GOVERNMENT'S OWN HANDS WERE NOW TIED, WOULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN BETTER EXPLAIN THAT FROM THE BEGINNING?

ΤΟ

THAT H.E. THE GOVERNMENT SAID WHEN THE GREEN PAPER WAS ISSUED

OPTIONS, AND THEY PUT ALL THE OPTIONS IN THE GREEN PAPER WERE REAL FORWARD THOSE OPTIONS WITH THAT CONSIDERATION IN MIND.

KEVIN

SINCLAIR, REPRESENTING

THE

BULLETIN

HAPPY

MAGAZINE

WITH

ARE YOU PERSONALLY SIR AUSTRALIA: YES,

DAVID, DEVELOPMENT OF THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR POWER STATION, THE WAY THAT IT BEING DEVELOPED AND HAS GOVERNMENT SOUGHT ANY FRESH REASSURANCES THE AUTHORITIES IN GUANGDONG?

H.E

·

SAFE

OF

THE

IS

FROM

DAYA BAY SHOULD

HIGH

STANDARDS OF

WITH THE ORIGINAL

HONG KONG IT WAS SHOULD

CONCERN OF PEOPLE IN HONG I VERY MUCH UNDERSTAND THE KONG THAT THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WHICH IS BUILT AT IT AND

SHOULD BE BUILT TO BE TOTALLY CONSTRUCTION. THEREFORE, WHEN SOME NON-CONFORMITY PLAN WAS DISCOVERED IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE IN WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. THE GOVERNMENT SHARED THAT CONCERN, ALSO ANXIOUS: TWO THINGS, ONE, THAT THE FACT OF NON-CONFORMITY BE MADE PUBLIC, SECONDLY, THAT THERE SHOULD BE A REPORT ON IT BOTH WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND WHAT REMEDIAL MEASURES WERE GOING TO BE SINCE THE REPORT ON REMEDIAL MEASURES HAS COME OUT THE GOVERNMENT NOT BEEN IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE AUTHORITIES IN GUANGDONG

CONTINUING DISCUSSION PARTICULAR ISSUE, BUT THERE HAS OF COURSE BEEN IN THE JOINT VENTURE COMPANY, AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS TWO DIRECTORS THE HONGKONG NIC WHICH FORMS PART OF THAT.

ON

TAKEN.

HAS

ON THIS

ON

/HARVEY PONG

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