"BUT DO NOT
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UNDERESTIMATE
YOUR OWN
ABILITY TO MOULD THAT
FUTURE," SIR GEOFFREY SAID.
"HONG KONG HAS SEEN HARD TIMES BEFORE. YOU HAVE ALWAYS SHOWN THE RESILIENCE AND THE RESOURCEFULNESS TO LIVE THROUGH SUCH TIMES EMERGE FROM THEM STRONGER THAN BEFORE, HE ADDED.
AND
THAT
SIR GEOFFREY SAID HONG KONG'S FUTURE WOULD CONTINUE IN BOLD TRADITION AND WOULD EMERGE FROM THE TRAUMA OF TIANANMEN AND GO ON CONSOLIDATING THE FUTURE AS A GREAT INTERNATIONAL CITY.
"YOU WILL BE BUILDING ON FOUNDATIONS WHICH BRITAIN HAS HELPED ΤΟ LAY: FOUNDATIONS THAT WILL ENDURE TO THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY. BRITAIN IS DETERMINED TO SAFEGUARD WHAT WE HAVE BEEN, AND SHALL GO ON, BUILDING TOGETHER, HE SAID.
"
NEW HARBOUR CROSSING SYMBOLISES CONFIDENCE, SAYS SIR GEOFFREY
THE EASTERN HARBOUR INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION
CROSSING PROJECT
IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF AN WHICH SYMBOLISES OVERSEAS CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG, THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, SIR GEOFFREY HOWE, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
HIS
COMMENTS CAME THIS AFTERNOON AFTER HE VISITED THE SITE OF THE $4 BILLION PROJECT WHICH IS THE LARGEST SINGLE TRANSPORTATION PROJECT UNDERTAKEN BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN HONG KONG.
"THIS PROJECT IS OF ENORMOUS ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE TO HONG KONG. WILL EASE CROSS HARBOUR AND RAIL CONGESTION AND OPEN UP EASTERN AREAS OF KOWLOON AND HONG KONG ISLAND, SIR GEOFFREY SAID.
IT
"
"BRITISH INVOLVEMENT HAS BEEN WIDE-RANGING: BRITISH FIRMS BEEN CONCERNED WITH MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT.
HAVE
FOR
"BUT FOR
ME.
THE GREATEST SIGNIFICANCE IS THAT IT ALSO SYMBOLISES HONG KONG'S OWN CONFIDENCE AND COMMITMENT IN BUILDING ITS FUTURE, HE ADDED.
THE
FOREIGN SECRETARY NOTED THAT THE EASTERN HARBOUR CROSSING IS REPRESENTATIVE OF OTHER MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ALL OVER THE TERRITORY SUCH AS PLANS FOR PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT. A NEW CONTAINER TERMINAL, THE TSEUNG KWAN (JUNK BAY) NEW TOWN AND VARIOUS LAND RECLAMATION AND INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS.
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"THIS SERVES AS A VALUABLE REMINDER THAT DESPITE THE SHOCK OF RECENT EVENTS, HONG KONG'S ECONOMY REMAINS HEALTHY AND RESILIENT, HE SAID.
/SIR GEOFFREY