WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1988
WOULD LOSE
"THIS IS NOT BECAUSE WE FEAR THAT HONG KONG ITSELF OUT FROM GENUINE RECIPROCITY. FAR FROM IT. WE ARE AFTER ALL AMONG MOST LIBERAL PLACES IN THE WORLD AS REGARDS BOTH GOODS AND SERVICES.
MORE ARE
CONCERNED
"BUT WE
THAT RECIPROCITY MAY LEAD TOWARDS AN ATTITUDE OF
THE BEHIND THAT EUROPE CAN GO IT EUROPE'.
ALONE
THE
PRECISE
FOR THE SEARCH INTROVERSION; A BARRIERS OF A
FEELING
'FORTRESS
PRINCIPLES, GATT "IT COULD ALSO LEAD TO A WEAKENING OF COURSE ARE NOT
RECIPROCITY. BASED ON NARROW BILATERAL DEVELOPMENTS WOULD CLEARLY BE VERY DAMAGING," THE GOVERNOR SAID.
OF
WHICH
SUCH
GOVERNOR VISITS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT * * * * *
VISIT TO THE
OF PRESIDENT
THE
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, ROUNDED OFF HIS HEART OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BY CALLING ON THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, LORD PLUMB, IN BRUSSELS TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
EFFECT IN 1987, SINCE THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT CAME INTO
PARLIAMENT HAS EUROPEAN
BECOME INCREASINGLY INFLUENTIAL IN PASSAGE OF LAWS FOR THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, SOME OF WHICH CAN HAVE EFFECT ON HONG KONG'S EXPORTS.
LORD PLUMB, WHO HAS
THE
THE
AN
MAKES
A DAUGHTER LIVING IN HONG KONG,
JULY WHEN HE MET PERIODIC VISITS TO THE TERRITORY. HIS LAST WAS IN
CHIEF SECRETARY, MR JOHN WITH THE DEPUTY
CHAN,
THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR MICHAEL CARTLAND.
AND
GOVERNOR GAVE AN ADDRESS ENTITLED
ΤΟ SOLUTIONS"
THE CENTRE
THE EARLIER IN THE DAY, "HONG KONG - UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES, UNIQUE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES.
HIS TALK
WAS HEARD BY AMBASSADORS,
SOME 300 MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT,
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY OFFICIALS, ACADEMICS JOURNALISTS AND SENIOR REPRESENTATIVES OF MAJOR FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS CONCERNS IN BELGIUM. ALSO PRESENT WAS THE CHINESE TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, MR LIU SHAN, WHO SPOKE DECEMBER.
AMBASSADOR
ΤΟ THE CEPS LAST
/THE CENTRE