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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1993
MEMBERS
7. The Community is one of our most important trading partners, responsible for about 13% of our overall trade, and it's been growing, getting on towards 20% in the last year, it grew by about 16%. So, it's a very important economic relationship, and we were able to achieve with the I would hope that what Community, we would be able to achieve sooner rather than later with the ancient countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Speaking for myself, not as a governor of Hong Kong, but as a concerned European citizen, I very much hope that before too long, when we refer to the relationship between Hong Kong and ther OF THE European Community, we're referring among others to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are at present outside the European Community. The sooner that through your efforts, and through our opening of our doors and windows, your part of our single market, the better. And I don't say that, if I may revert to a former personality, I don't say that because I am a politician who believes that there is a distinction between I think widening has widening and deepening in the Community. always meant, does mean today, and will always mean a deepening too, but that se as much as I'm going to get involved in all that today. I've noticed that there is a debate on all these matters
in the United Kingdom just at the moment. I haven't been part of it and I haven't greatly missed it, though I do have strong views to put against other people's prejudices.
indeed, for asking me Thank you very much, Transcript.
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