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HK SHOULD KEEP ITS OPTIONS OPEN
INTEREST IN STAGING THAT ITS OPTIONS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
HONG KONG SHOULD PROCEED TO REGISTER ITS AN EXPO IN 1997 BEFORE THE NOVEMBER 20 DEADLINE SO WILL REMAIN OPEN, THE HON JAMES TIEN SAID IN THE TODAY (THURSDAY).
SIMPLY GAVE UP NOW THE OTHER THAT
IT WOULD BE A GRAVE MISTAKE IF HONG KONG WITHOUT FULLY STUDYING THE FACTS TO PROVE ONE WAY OR AN EXPO IN 1997 WAS VIABLE, MR TIEN SAID.
HE NOTED THAT WHILE THE
EXPO 97,
IT
GOVERNMENT
WAS
FULLY
RESERVATION ABOUT FEATURES OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT.
HAD ANNOUNCED ITS GRAVE
OF THE AWARE
POSITIVE
THE WORLD'S SPOTLIGHT. THESE WERE THAT HONG KONG WOULD BE IN
AND WOULD EVENT AN INTERNATIONAL WOULD SHOW ITSELF ABLE TO STAGE
AND PROSPEROUS WAS A DYNAMIC, CONVINCE EVERYBODY THAT EFFICIENT CITY,
HONG KONG
ESTIMATED
MAKE AN AVERAGE
MR TIEN ALSO NOTED THAT THE PROPOSERS OF THE PROJECT THAT ABOUT 85 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION WOULD EACH OF TWO AND A HALF VISITS TO EXPO.
SEES THE HAS REFRAINED
"ON THE OTHER HAND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNIMPRESSED AND FIGURES AS UNREALISTIC. BUT AT PRESENT THE GOVERNMENT
HE SAID. FROM ENLIGHTENING US ON ITS FIGURES,
THAT
OF
VISITORS FROM AND BY THEN HONG FOR THE COMPUTERS
HONG KONG'S IMMIGRATION REFERRING то THE ARGUMENT FACILITIES WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COPE WITH 15,000 DAILY CHINA, MR TIEN SAID THAT 1997 WAS NINE YEARS AWAY
GENERATION" "FIFTH KONG MIGHT BE BEYOND THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT.
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'ALSO, BY
WILL
AND SYSTEMS IN THE SAR GOVERNMENT ISSUANCE OF VISITOR VISAS, WITH CHINA TODAY," HE SAID.
THEN
WE
BE
IMPLEMENTING
WILL
COUNTRY, ONE
INCLUDING RELATIONSHIP, OUR
BE MUCH DIFFERENT
TWO
THE
THAN
MR TIEN AGREED THAT IN THE PERIOD UP TO AND BEYOND 1997, MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS WOULD LIKELY BE UNDERTAKEN.
THE GIVEN
MATERIAL,
EQUIPMENT IN CONSEQUENCE, RESOURCES HONG KONG HAD IN HAND, THE TERRITORY MIGHT NOT COPE WITH AN EXPO.
"BUT SHOULD WE NOT EVEN TRY?" HE QUESTIONED.
SEVEN
AND LABOUR
BE
ABLE TO
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