FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1993
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GOVERNOR AT A PUBLIC MEETING ON HIS POLICY ADDRESS AT HKU
GOVERNOR: GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED FOR COMING THIS EVENING. THE LAST TIME I WAS IN THIS HALL WAS ΤΟ HEAR A LECTURE WHICH SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ATTENDED BY SENIOR MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW. IT WAS AN OCCASION ON WHICH HE MADE HIS VIEWS UNEQUIVOCALLY CLEAR ON DEMOCRACY IN HONG KONG AND RELATED ISSUES AND J SAID AT THE END OF THAT MEETING THAT I LOOKED FORWARD IN DUE COURSE AFTER 1997 TO THE OPPORTUNITY OF MAKING MY VIEWS CLEAR ON DEMOCRACY IN SINGAPORE. BUT TONIGHT I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A SPEECH. TONIGHT 1S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT I SAID IN MY SPEECH TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS YEAR, OR ANY OTHER MATTERS.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT. ONE OF THE LAYS IN WHICH GOVERNMENT MAKES ITSELF ACCOUNTABLE IS BY ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC AND, IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT TO ANSWER FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE, YOU SPEND A LOT LONGER TRYING TO GET THE DECISIONS RIGHT.
QUESTIONS
- THE FORM THIS EVENING, I THINK YOU KNOW. KE'VE GOT ABOUT AN HOUR AND A QUARTER AND I'LL CALL QUESTIONS IN GROUPS OF THREE AND WE'LL SEE HOW MANY QUESTIONS WE CAN GET THROUGH DURING THE COURSE OF THE EVENING. ACTUALLY GROUPS OF FOUR BECAUSE I CAN SEE THERE'S A MICROPHONE STAND UP IN THE GALLERY. THE ONE THING I WOULD ASK ALL QUESTIONERS, ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT ASKING QUESTIONS, OR WHO WOULD LINE TO ASK QUESTIONS, 15 TO KEEP THE QUESTIONS SHORT. QUITE APART FROM ANYTHING ELSE, I'LL LET YOU INTO A SECRET: SHORT QUESTIONS ARE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO ANSWER THAN LONG QUESTIONS. ANYWAY, 1 F YOU'D LIKE TO BEGIN IN THE TIME-HONOURED FASHION, ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO ASK A QUESTION PUT YOUR HAND UP, AND IF NOBODY KANTS TO ASK A QUESTION WE CAN ALL GO HOME KARLY. ALL RIGHT, HANDS UP. THERE'S A LADY WHO'S VERY ENERGETICALLY PUTTING HER HAND UP HERE, IF SHE'D LIKE TO GO TO MICROPHONE NUMBER ONE. THEN OVER THERE THERE'S A GENTLEMAN WITH GLASSES
IF YOU'D LIKE TO GO ROUND ΤΟ NUMBER TWO. THERE'S A GENTLEMAN AT THE BACK ALSO WITH GLASSES WITH HIS LEFT HAND IN THE AIR, IF YOU'D LIKE TO GO TO MICROPHONE THREE AND, IF THE ORIENTAL DAFLY NEWS WOULD ALLOW, SOMEBODY UP IN THE GALLERY MAY WANT TO ASK A QUESTION AT NUMBER FOUR. ANYBODY IN THE GALLERY KANT TO ASH A QUESTION? ANYBODY APART FROM THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS? WHY HAVE THEY CLEANED THE STREET THREE TIMES BEFORE YOU NOBODY AT NUMBER FOUR FOR A BIT. NUMBER ONE - QUESTION?
MR. PATTEN.
CAME TODAY?
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