YUEN SARAH
(ATV): I WONDER. IS IT POSSIBLE TO
IF ASK YOU ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN OR HEARD IN THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS MADE YOU CHANGE YOUR STANCE ON ANYTHING? AND IF SO, IS IT POSSIBLE TO TELL US WHAT?
DONE
MR MAUDE: IT WASN'T REALLY THAT SORT OF VISIT. WHAT IT'S
AND TO IS TO THROW DIFFERENT LIGHT ON THINGS FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES,
SAY. ENABLE
BECAUSE. AS I
MY ME TO UNDERSTAND ISSUES IN THE ROUND. PREVIOUS VISIT HERE NEARLY A YEAR AGO, WHEN I HAD DIFFERENT RESPONSIBILITIES. AND WHEN THE SITUATION WAS DIFFERENT IN ANY EVENT,
VIEW. WAS
AND NOT A BASIS ON WHICH I COULD FORM A ROUNDED CLEARLY SITTING
PLACE BEHIND A DESK IN WHITEHALL IS NOT EITHER. THE BEST FORM A ROUNDED VIEW. SO I AM ABLE NOW, TO HAVE FILLED OUT PERCEPTIONS OF THE PROBLEMS AND THE ISSUES. AND I HOPE TO CONTRIBUTE AS A RESULT OF THAT. TO THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS.
TO
MY
THAT
MARK
MR MAUDE. YOU SAID IN YOUR STATEMENT BRAYNE (BBC): WAS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW PARTNERSHIP.
WE SHOULD
UNDERSTAND THAT. IN SOME WAY. THAT THE PREVIOUS PARTNERSHIP, UNDER EARLIER MANAGEMENT. AS IT WERE. WAS LACKING? AND IF SO, IN WHAT WAY?
THIS FROM
MR MAUDE: THIS IS NOT WHAT I SAID. I WAS QUOTING WHAT WAS SAID TO ME.
MARK BRAYNE:
DO YOU AGREE?
MR MAUDE: WELL. I MEAN, I HOPE THAT WE CAN START AND WORK TOGETHER IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY,
NEW WHAT THERE CLEARLY IS, IS A
ΤΟ TEAM OF MINISTERS AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE. JOHN MAJOR AND I ARE NEW THE FOREIGN OFFICE. WE BOTH ATTACH VERY GREAT IMPORTANCE TO HONG KONG INDEED. WE SHALL WANT TO BUILD ON THE WORK THAT OUR PREDECESSORS HAVE DONE, BUT OF COURSE WE COME TO IT NEW: WE COME TO IT, PERHAPS, WITH FRESH MINDS, AND WANTING TO LOOK AT THE ISSUES OURSELVES.
IF I CAN JUST EXPAND ON THAT. ONE OF THE THINGS WHICH OBVIOUSLY I WANTED TO DO HERE WAS TO MEET PEOPLE AND TALK TO PEOPLE AND BEGIN TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WHO I'VE MET IN THE COURSE OF THESE TWO DAYS. AND WITH WHOM I HOPE I SHALL BE DEALING FOR SOME TIME TO COME.
KAREN CHENG (COMMERCIAL RADIO): A TOP CHINESE OFFICIAL RECENTLY SAID HE DOES NOT THINK THERE IS A CONFIDENCE CRISIS IN HONG KONG. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CONVINCE THEM THAT THERE IS SUCH A PROBLEM AND THAT SOMETHING MUST BE DONE?
MR
OF MAUDE: WELL, AS I'VE SAID, I AM NOT IN THE BUSINESS COMMENTING ON WHAT OTHERS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE SAID. AS I SAID WHEN I CAME HERE ON SUNDAY EVENING. THE FACT THAT CONFIDENCE WAS DAMAGED HERE SIMPLY A AS A RESULT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BEGINNING OF JUNE, IS HISTORICAL FACT, AND I DID NO MORE THAN STATE THE FACT.
FUNG WAI-KONG (ASIAWEEK):
MR MINISTER. YESTERDAY YOU MET THE LEADERS. YOU ASKED PRESSURE GROUP
THEM THAT IF
THE BRITISH THE GOVERNMENT DOES SOMETHING WHICH THE CHINESE DON'T LIKE, WHAT WILL
ARE THE BRITISH GOING REACTION OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE BE?
ΤΟ DO SOMETHING WHICH THE CHINESE' DON'T LIKE?
/MR MAUDE: