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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1992
ELSE
IDEAS" ANYONE
IDEAS THAT ARE
"ANY MR PATTEN SAID HE LOOKED FORWARD TO
MUST RE MAY HAVE FOR THE 1995 ELECTIONS, "BUT THEY OPEN, FAIR AND THOUGHT TO BE SO BY THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG."
SUCCESSFUL, WHICH
HE SAID HONG KONG'S VOICE HAD BEEN HEARD IN CANADA. "I HOPE
THE THROUGHOUT
WORLD THAT EVERYONE THROUGHOUT OUR REGION
WILL
AHEAD
THE VOICE OF A HEAR THE VOICE OF HONG KONG IN THE YEARS COMMUNITY WHICH IS
WHICH IS
AND
[S
SELF-CONFIDENT,
TOLERANT AND WHICH IS FREE.
THE HONG
ALSO SPEAKING AT THE GALA DINNER, THE HION KIM CAMPBELL,
OF
SAID MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL
CANADA, KONG GOVERNOR'S WORK HAS ENSURED THAT "HONG KONG WILL CONTINUE TESTIMONY TO WHAT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE WITH DETERMINATION, AND INVENTIVENESS.
"
"
TO BE HARDWORK
"THIS WILL BE ADMIRED AND SUPPORTED BY CANADA, SHE SAID.
TONIGHT'S GALA DINNER WAS CHAIRED BY STANLEY KWOK. HEAD TABLE GUESTS INCLUDED THE HON DAVID LAM, LT. GOVERNOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA; PREMIER MIKE HARCOURT; GORDON CAMPBELL, MAYOR OF VANCOUVER; JAMES
FOR SECRETARY
RECREATION AND CULTURE; AND MAURICE COPI THORNE, CHAIRMAN OF THE VANCOUVER FESTIVAL HONG KONG ORGANISING COMMITTEE.
50,
TRANSCRIPT OF REMARKS BY THE GOVERNOR TO THE MEDIA AFTER THE VANCOUVER FESTIVAL HONG KONG GALA DINNER,
WEDNESDAY (VANCOUVER TIME)
DO.
HONG KONG WANT IS A RATIONAL "I THINK THAT WHAT PEOPLE IN
LIMIT ΤΟ DISCUSSION RATHER THAN EMPTY THREATS AND I THINK THERE IS A
WE ALL KNOW THAT THE RE-WRITING WHICH THE NONA IN HONG KONG CAN
THE ABOUT THE BASIC
TALK THE
TO THE BEING ACCOUNTABLE KONG
AND THE BASIC
DECLARATION JOINT
AUTHORITIES
AND IN
HONG
LAW
EXECUTIVE LEGISLATURE. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION LAW ARE ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
"WE KNOW THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO AGREE TO THE
THAT UNDERSTAND
SENIOR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 1995 ELECTIONS. 1
1995 ELECTIONS, THAT OFFICIALS IN PEKING ACCEPT MY CRITERIA FOR THE
BE THEY SHOULD BE OPEN, THAT THEY SHOULD BE FAIR AND THAT THEY SHOULD
AND PART OF THAT ACCEPTABILITY ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.
LAW. ITS IS PERFECTLY CLEAR FROM THE JOINT DECLARATION AND THE BASIC
RATHER THAN ACCEPTABILITY TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SO I THINK THAT CRITICISING, PEOPLE SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
AND HAD A SERIOUS
QUITE UNDERSTANDABLY
THE NOISE
BEHAVED RESPONSIBLY AND CONTINUE TO DO SO.'
WHATEVER
HAS
PASSIONATE
OFF STAGE,
DEBATE.
THEY
THEY
WILL
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