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MONDAY, JULY 27, 1992
CARRIE CHAN (ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS):
WHY DO YOU SAY THAT THE AIRPORT ISSUE SHOULD BE SEPARATED FROM ANY OTHER ISSUES, AND YOU TOLD THE LEGISLATORS THAT THE AIRPORT ISSUE SHOULDN'T BE MIXED UP WITH THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM MATTER?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
CORRECT.
WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
IS IT
CARRIE CHAN (ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS): THAT THE CHINESE SIDR INTEND TO DO THAT?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
NO, I READ OCCASIONAL PRESS REPORTS THAT THERE IS SOME LINKAGE. IT'S NOT ANYTHING OFFICIAL BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IN OUR VIEW THAT IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO TACKLE MATTERS. HERE IS A LIMITED DIFFERENCE OF VIEW ON THE FINANCING OF THE AIRPORT ON WHICH THERE IS A GENERAL AGREEMENT, BUT ON THIS LIMITED FINANCIAL MATTER, WHICH IS IMPORTANT BUT LIMITED, THERE IS NOT AGREEMENT. THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON ITS MERITS. THERE ARE PROPOSALS, THERE ARE COUNTER-PROPOSALS LET US SETTLE THIS ON IT'S MERITS AND NOT TRY, EVEN IN SOME VAGUE WAY, TO LINK IF WITH OTHER MATTERS; THAT WON'T WORK.
DANNY GITTINGS ISUNDAY POST):
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ARE THERE ANY PLANS, OR
INDEED ANY LIKELIHOOD OF HONG KONG MATTERS THE AIRPORT OR OTHER MATTERS BEING TAKEN UP AT PRIME MINISTERIAL LEVEL AGAIN WITHIN NEXT FEW MONTHS?
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THE
FINANCIAL SECRETARY:
FOR
THERE ARE NO PLANS ᎢᎻᎪᎢ . I WILL HAVE A MEETING WITH THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER IN NEW YORK IN SEPTEMBER, THAT IS PART OF THE PROCESS WHICH WAS AGREED, YOU'LL REMEMBER, IN THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. THE AIM OF THAT 19 TO TRY AND SPUR ON THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP, TO TRY AND SPEED UP WORK THERE, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE HAVEN'T SETTLED THE EXACT AGENDA FOR THAT MEETING YET.
JONATHAN BRAUDE (SCMP):
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I WONDER, COULD YOU
TELL ME WHETHER YOU ARE PLANNING TO HAVE ANY RESPONSE TO THE WORRIES ABOUT SPLIT-FAMILIES WHO ARR LIKELY то LOS B OUT ON BRITISH
NATIONALITY?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
YES, I HAD A LETTER
FROM THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FAMILIES WHICH 1 SAW THIS MORNING, AND DR CHUNG HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ME BECAUSE HE HAS BREN WORKING VERY HARD IN THAT DIRECTION. THIS QUESTION HAS GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME, I RECOGNISE THAT; I'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE HOME SECRETARY TODAY IN AN EFFORT TO SPEED IT ON AND HE HAS AUTHORISED ME TO SAY THAT HR WILL SPEEDILY AND GENEROUSLY AT INDIVIDUAL CASES AS THEY COME BEFORE
LOOK HIM.
PATRICIA LEUNG (WAH KIU YAT PO):
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL HAS VOTED FOR A 'ONE SEAT ONE VOTE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN 1995 BUT THE CHINESE SIDE FAVOURS THE 'MULTI-SEAT ONE VOTE' SYSTEM, SO WHEN YOU ARE CONSIDERING THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG, WHICH WOULD WEIGH HEAVIER?
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WHICH OPINION?
/THE GOVERNOR: