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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1993
RESULTING FROM HIS TRIP TO LONDON.
PRESIDENT :
MR CHENG: THANK.
CHENG
MR VINCENT
MY QUESTION IS NOT ON CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SO I'LL JUST WAIT.
THE NATIONALITY OR ON
DR LAM KUI-CHUN : MR PRESIDENT. THE GOVERNOR REFERRED TO HIS DESIRE, SUCCESSFUL AND IN HIS SPEECH, TO BRING THE SINO-BRITISH TALKS TO A HONOURABLE CONCLUSION. COULD HE EXPLAIN IN GREATER DETAIL MEANS BY AN HONOURABLE CONCLUSION?
GOVERNOR
WHAT HE
CONTAIN AT
WHICH WERE PRE-ORDAINED
I BELIEVE THAT AN HONOURABLE CONCLUSION WOULD LEAST THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS. FIRST OF ALL WE WOULD HAVE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS AGREED FOR 1994/95 WHICH WERE CREDIBLE AND CLEARLY DESIGNED TO PRODUCE A FAIR OUTCOME RATHER THAN A OUTCOME AND I THINK THE COUNCIL WILL UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THIS THE ONE AND THE OTHER. SECONDLY I KNOW THAT MANY
THAT IT WAS COUNCIL, INDEED, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED TO DISCOVER
MEMBERS OF PRETTY WELL AN UNANIMOUS VIEW OF THIS COUNCIL, LIKE MANY
THROUGH TRAIN AND THE COMMUNITY, TAKE A STRONG POSITION ABOUT THE BELIEVE THAT LIKE REAL THROUGH TRAINS, PEOPLE WHO PURCHASE A TICKET AT ONE STATION TO GO TO A DESTINATION, ARE ABLE TO TRAVEL THE WHOLE ROUTE.
I THINK THAT THEREFORE, RATHER THAN GET TURFED OFF HALF WAY ALONG IT.
TO HAVE SOME CLARITY ON THE THROUGH TRAIN, A POINT THAT'S BEEN MADE BY STATEMENT A NUMBER OF GROUPS, I NOTICED IT WAS MADE BY THE DABHK IN A
THE EARLIER THIS WEEK. I THINK SOME CLARIFICATION OF THE POSITION ON
FACTORS ΤΟ AN THROUGH TRAIN WOULD ALSO BE ONE OF THE CONTRIBUTORY
ΤΟ HONOURABLE AND SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION. WE, I THINK, WOULD ALL WANT
BELIEVE FOR THE AIM BOTH FOR THE FIRST OF THOSE OBJECTIVES AND I SECOND AS WELL.
MR BRIC LI
(THROUGH INTERPRETER) :
YOUR
THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. MR GOVERNOR, JUST NOW, MR GOVERNOR, YOU SAID THAT CONCERNING THE SINO- BRITISH TALKS THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY HIDDEN AGENDA BUT BECAUSE THE FROM RELEASING TALKS ARB CONDUCTED ON DIPLOMATIC LEVEL AND SO APART
THE INFORMATION ON THE PLACE OF THE TALKS AND THE TIME OF THE TALKS, AGENDA ITSELF WOULD BE KEPT HIDDEN AND WE FIRST THOUGHT THAT THE TALKS
IN
PACKAGE WOULD
THE SEVEN
CONSTITUTIONAL COVER
PROPOSALS
BOTH CONCERNING 1994/95 ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS AND IT SEEMS THAT GOVERNMENTS NOW AGREE THAT THE TALKS WOULD BE CONDUCTED ON THE BASIS THE OF THE THREE ACCORDS AS WELL AS THE DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENTS BETWEEN
INCLUDED AS A TWO GOVERNMENTS. AND SO IF THE AGREEMENTS ARE ALSO BASIS FOR THE TALKS THEN IT WOULD BE MUCH WIDER THAN THE SCOPE COVERED BY
THROUGH
JUST YOUR SEVEN CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS. FOR INSTANCE, TRAIN AND CONVERGENCE, IT SEEMS THAT NOW IT IS NOW ON THE AGENDA FOR THAT IF THE TALKS AND IN THE COURSE OF THE TALKS, ROW CAN WE KNOW DOCUMENTS I MENTIONED WILL ALL BE COVERED. THE COVERAGE WOULD VENTURE OUTSIDE OF YOUR SEVEN CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS AND IF OUTSIDE OF YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS, THEN HOW PUBLIC OPINION AND HOW DO WE KNOW WHETHER IT HAS VENTURED OUTSIDE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS?
THEY VENTURE CAN YOU GAUGE
/GOVERNOR