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REGIONAL TRADE, SIR
GROWING BOTH
ON ASIA-PACIFIC
DAVID SAID ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE REQUIRED CLOSER ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION BILATERALLY AND REGIONALLY.
"HONG KONG IS BEING ADMITTED TO THE CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE (PECC), TO JOIN JAPAN AND 14 IN THAT WELL-ESTABLISHED REGIONAL FORUM.
PACIFIC
ECONOMIC OTHER ECONOMIES
"WE HOPE THAT WE CAN JOIN THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ASIA ECONOMIC CONFERENCE (APEC) IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
"FOR
PACIFIC
CONTACTS AND REGIONAL GROWTH
IT IS
ESTABLISHING BY EXCHANGING IDEAS, DEVELOPING MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CAN PROMOTE THE HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE," HE SAID.
AND
JAPAN PROCESS,
AS THE LARGEST AND MOST ADVANCED ECONOMY IN THE REGION, PARTICULARLY WELL-PLACED TO TAKE A LEADING ROLE IN THIS SIR DAVID SAID.
WAS
"HONG KONG, AS AN OPEN-MARKET ECONOMY THAT LIVES BY TRADE, WILL DO ITS BEST TO PLAY ITS PART TO THE FULL,
..
HE ADDED.
GOVERNOR MEETS JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER
* * * * *
THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC TRADE MISSION TO JAPAN, GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, CONCLUDED A HECTIC ROUND TOKYO TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ON AN ENTHUSIASTIC NOTE.
HEADED BY THE OF MEETINGS IN
PRIME BY THE COUNCIL, BARONESS DUNN, AND THE SENIOR
GOVERNOR MEETING THE JAPANESE THE DAY BEGAN WITH THE MINISTER, MR TOSHIKI KAIFU. SIR DAVID WAS ACCOMPANIED CHAIRMAN OF THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, SIR JOHN WHITEHEAD, MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR ALLEN LEE.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JAPAN WAS HIGH ON THE MINISTER.
AGENDA
GROWING TRADE BETWEEN HONG
OF THE
DISCUSSIONS
WITH
KONG AND THE PRIME
AFTER THE
MEETING SIR
THAT HR TOLD REPORTERS
HAD IN TERMS OF JAPANESE MENTIONED THE IMPORTANT ROLE HONG KONG PLAYED TRADE WITH CHINA.
DAVID
HE SAID A QUARTER OF
TOTAL JAPANESE
EXPORTS ΤΟ CHINA WENT
THROUGH HONG KONG.
"I THINK MR KAIFU IS VERY INTERESTED IN THE ECONOMIC ROLE HONG KONG CAN PLAY IN TERMS
RELATIONS ECONOMIC OF JAPANESE CHINA."
THAT
WITH
TO JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS STRESSING ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE AVAILABLE IN HONG KONG.
THE
/"IF PEOPLE
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