SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1992
GOVERNOR:
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WELL, I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT FROM WHEREVER TRAINS THEY ARRIVE AT AGREEABLE DESTINATIONS, WITH AS MANY PEOPLE ON BOARD AS THAT'S POSSIBLE, WITH AS MUCH FREIGHT AS POSSIBLE, AND ON TIME- AND THE END OF THAT RAILWAY METAPHOR. I WOULD LIKE TO CONCENTRATE ON MY WE ALL PROPOSALS FOR BOTH EXISTING AND NEW FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES. KNOW WHAT THE TEXTS SAY. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE TEXT'S FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES REPRESENT, OR SHOULD REPRESENT
WE ALL KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME CRITICISM ABOUT WHICH SOME EXISTING FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES SUBSTANTIAL INTERESTS;
I AND
TRIED TO NOT I THINK
INTERESTS.
PROPOSALS,
TELL US THAT SUBSTANTIAL
THE REALLY THAT
TOTAL
IT'S
DEBATING
EXTENT то REPRESENT
ADDRESS
POINT
ΤΟ MY
THE IN PARTICULAR SATISFACTION OF MEMBERS OF THIS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BUT I'M SURE A MATTER WHICH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WILL SPEND SOME TIME AT SOME POINT NEXT YEAR. I ALSO PUT FORWARD PROPOSALS WHICH SEEMED TO WHETHER IN ME ΤΟ REFLECT EVERYTHING THAT HAD BEEN WRITTEN OR SAID,
I TRIED TO PUBLIC OR IN PRIVATE ABOUT FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES;
NEW NINE THE
FUNCTIONAL REFLECT
IN THE PROPOSALS I PUT FOR CONSTITUENCIES. IF ANYONE, HOWEVER DISTINGUISHED, IS ATTEMPTING
A FUNCTIONAL WOULD LIKE TO PUT FORWARD NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT CONSTITUENCY SHOULD BE, AND IN THE LIGHT OF THAT INTERPRETATION TO SAY I WHAT FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES WE SHOULD ACTUALLY CHOOSE FOR 1995,
IN HEARING THAT, AM SURE THE WHOLE COMMUNITY WILL BE INTERESTED INCLUDING DOCTORS AND ENGINEERS AND NURSES AND OTHERS.
THAT
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MR LAU WAH-SUM (IN CANTONESE):
FAIL TO REACH AGREEMENT WITH THE CHINESE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PACKAGE, WILL YOU CHOOSE TO GO IT ALONE IN 1995, DISREGARDING CONVERGENCE WITH THE POLITICAL SYSTEM 1997?
IN
GOVERNOR:
DISTINGUISHED
то
THE
SAID IN MY STATEMENT, AS I SAID I'VE
DIRECTOR FOREIGN
LU, MINISTER OF CHINA, AS I SAID TO
AND I THAT I WAS
IMAGINE TO CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS, VERY HAPPY
80 T THINK, DISCUSSIONS WILL CONTINUE IN THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP.
ANY COUNTER NOT LEAST BEFORE WE'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF STUDYING
PREMATURE TO MAKE PROPOSALS BY PRC OFFICIALS, I THINK IT WOULD BE
SUGGESTS ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT BREAKDOWNS, SUCH AS THE HONOURABLE MEMBER WE SHOULD BE MAKING. I HAVEN'T BROKEN DOWN, DESPITE A PUNCTURE IN MY
DOWN. CAR.
DON'T THINK THAT DISCUSSIONS HAVE BROKEN I THINK THAT IT'S SENSIBLE FOR POLITICAL LEADERS TO TRY TO CLOSE ALL THE DOORS AND CLOSE ALL THE WINDOWS. SO I REMAIN OPEN TO REMAIN OPEN TO HEARING OTHER PROPOSALS.
I NEVER
DISCUSSION, I
POINT IT
I HOPE HONOURABLE MEMBERS WILL TAKE THE
ALTERNATIVES. SOME MADE, I'VE
THAT WE REALLY DO HAVE TO HEAR WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF THAT HAD BEEN THE WAY WE'D CONDUCTED BUSINESS WE SHOULD ON THE AIRPORT. I THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT THAT IS HOW CONDUCT BUSINESS ON THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COMMUNITY.
VERY
ON,
CHINESE
MR ERIC LI KA-CHEUNG (IN CANTONESE): MR GOVERNOR, YOU MADE IT
DISCUSSION WILL CLEAR A MOMENT AGO THAT YOU HOPED THAT, AT THE JLG, CONTINUE AND THAT YOU ARE MOST WILLING TO ALLOW DISCUSSION TO GO BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK WHETHER THIS IS RECIPROCATED BY THE SIDE? AND THEN REGARDING THE JLG, WHETHER IT'S THE MEETING ITSELF OR THE AGENDA, IT'S ALL HELD IN-CAMERA, AND UNLESS IT IS AGREED TO BY THE BE MEASURES OR CHINESE,
SO WILL THERE IT WON'T BE MADE PUBLIC. SPECIAL MEASURES PUT IN PLACE SO THAT WE, ALL THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, ARE FULLY CONFIDENT THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY TRADING-OFF OR OF SECRET DEALS?
MAKING
/GOVERNOR: