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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1991
NEW AIRPORT A KEY TO FUTURE PROSPERITY
AND RELIABLE THE TIMELY PROVISION OF SOPHISTICATED, EFFICIENT IS INFRASTRUCTURE
THE KEY TO AND COMMUNICATIONS TRANSPORTATION
CENTRE IN MAINTAINING HONG KONG'S POSITION AS A PRE-EMINENT BUSINESS
TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID THE ASIA PACIFIC
THE DEPUTY REGION, FORD,
SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
PROJECTS, SIR DAVID SAID AS KAI TAK THE NEW AIRPORT AND RELATED
KONG COULD NOT AIRPORT WAS RAPIDLY APPROACHING CAPACITY LIMITS HONG
ITS FUTURE ECONOMIC A NEW AIRPORT
ENSURE AFFORD NOT TO HAVE PROSPERITY.
ON
то
HE
SAID
THE SIGNING
HAD
OF THE
PROVIDED REPLACEMENT
MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING THE CERTAINTY. NEEDED
AT AIRPORT
LAP
CHEK
TO КОК
WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT GET ON WITH CONSTRUCTING THE AND RELATED PROJECTS.
IT ALSO PROVIDED A PRACTICAL
DEVELOPMENT TO
THE
ISSUES RELATED DISCUSSED BY PARTIES CONCERNED.
FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH VARIOUS
OF THE
NEW
AIRPORT
COULD BE
PO-YAN, HAS A
THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE, CHAIRED BY MR WONG MEMBERSHIP OF 49 COMING FROM A WIDE CROSS-SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY.
ESTABLISHMENT SIR DAVID SAID
MARKED AN IMPORTANT AIRPORT AND RELATED PROJECTS,
MILESTONE
IN
OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
IN INVOLVING
THE
COMMUNITY
THE
THEIR EXPERT
I KNOW
THAT
"GIVEN THE DIVERSIFIED BACKGROUND OF MEMBERS AND THE PROJECTS, KNOWLEDGE IN VARIOUS FIELDS RELATED TO WE WILL RECEIVE VALUABLE ADVICE FROM THE COMMITTEE IN DUE COURSE.
"I CAN
ASSURE YOU
SERIOUSLY AND CAREFULLY CONSIDERED,
THE SIR DAVID SAID
THAT
YOUR HE SAID.
VIEWS
CONSULTATIVE
COMMITTEE
WILL
BE
VERY
WOULD PROVIDE A OF THE VALUABLE FORUM FOR COLLECTING VIEWS FROM A WIDE CROSS-SECTION
AND FOR
THE THE GOVERNMENT TO EXPLAIN COMMUNITY ON THE PROJECTS
PROJECTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
"BUILDING THE
NEW AIRPORT,
IMMENSE
THE AND
OF
ROAD AND RAIL LINKS EVER UNDERTAKEN IN HONG BOTH FROM EFFORT
ASSOCIATED WITH IT, IS THE LARGEST PROJECT
REQUIRE
AN
AMOUNT KONG AND IT WILL THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS TO SEE IT THROUGH.
"WE CERTAINLY NEED THE SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC IN THIS AMBITIOUS PROJECT DONE.
"TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL, THE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC INFORMED
EFFORT TO FULLY
**
KEEP THE
THE PROJECTS, SIR DAVID SAID.
INTENDS
OF
THE
ORDER ΤΟ GET
то MAKE EVERY DEVELOPMENT OF
/AS THE