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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1994
QUESTION:
PATTEN,
CAN
REPORT PRESS MR
YOU CONFIRM THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL HAS ALREADY RULED OUT THE SETTING UP OF RIGHTS COMMISSION?
DISCUSSED
THAT THE
A HUMAN
SAID THAT COMMISSION
COMMISSION,
TAKEN
GOVERNOR: NO, THERE WAS A PRESS REPORT THIS MORNING WHICH
HAD
A HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL THE EXECUTIVE YESTERDAY AND IT'S COMPLETELY UNTRUE. WHEN ENQUIRIES WERE MADE OF YESTERDAY ABOUT WHETHER EXCO HAD DISCUSSED A HUMAN RIGHTS WE TOLD THOSE MAKING THE ENQUIRIES THAT NO SUCH DISCUSSIONS HAD PLACE. THEREFORE, WE CAN'T BE BLAMED, IF DESPITE THOSE ASSURANCES, A REPORT WAS STILL WRITTEN. BUT, I REPEAT,
AT RIGHTS COMMISSION ABOUT A HUMAN WHATSOEVER DISCUSSION YESTERDAY THOUGH THERE WERE LOTS OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT OTHER MATTERS.
UNQUALIFIED THERE WAS NO
EXCO
QUESTION: MR PATTEN, DO YOU THINK MRS ANSON CHAN IS A QUALIFIED PERSON TO BE THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WHEN THE SAR IS ESTABLISHED?
QUESTION COMMUNITY'S CHAN HAS BEEN ONE OF THE
ACCEPT
CLEAR
IT'S
THAT
WROTE FOR
GOVERNOR: LET ME DEAL WITH, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT PROMPTS YOUR AND THEN SET OUT FOR YOU MY ADMIRATION AND, I THINK, THE ADMIRATION FOR
FOR THE EXCELLENT LEADERSHIP WHICH ANSON GIVING AS CHIEF SECRETARY. AGAIN, THERE IS A REPORT IN NEWSPAPERS THIS MORNING THAT MR GOODLAD IS GOING TO HAVE ON HIS AGENDA WHEN HE GOES TO PEKING, THE SUGGESTION THAT THE CHINESE SHOULD
I WANT TO MAKE IT MRS CHAN AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE SAR.
OR MOSTLY UNTRUE. UNTRUE SLIGHTLY STORY THAT
1SN'T JUST
I'VE HOPE
MADE AND COMPLETELY
WHOLLY UNTRUE. I ABSOLUTELY, REASONABLY CLEAR. IT IS A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF WHOEVER IT WHICH IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE VERY HIGHEST REGARD MRS CHAN'S ABILITIES. I THINK THAT FOR EXAMPLE, THE RATINGS SHOW THAT THE WHOLE COMMUNITY HAS WARMTH STRAIGHT-FORWARD, HONEST, COMPETENT STYLE OF LEADERSHIP. ABSOLUTELY TIP-TOP AND ANY JOB SHE DID, SHE WOULD WELL. BUT MR GOODLAD HAS A LOT OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT WHEN HE GOES TO PEKING AND THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE SAR IS NOT, REPEAT, NOT, UNDERLINE NOT, UNDERLINE NOT THREE TIMES, ONE OF THEM. IS THAT REASONABLY CLEAR?
PUBLIC OPINION TO HER DECISIVE, SHE'S BEEN DO OUTSTANDINGLY
ΤΟ THE
OF THE CHIEF
QUESTION: BUT WILL THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MAKE A SUGGESTION CHINESE GOVERNMENT THAT THE APPOINTMENT OF CANDIDATE EXECUTIVE?
GOVERNOR: WE HAVEN'T EVEN CONSIDERED THAT SO I DON'T KNOW STORY CAN HAVE COME FROM.
QUESTION: TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU THINK THAT MR GOODLAD'S TURN A NEW PAGE TO THE SINO-BRITISH RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE CHAN JUST MENTIONED THAT SHE WANTED TO START THE DIALOGUE CHINESE OFFICIALS ON THE TRANSITION OF CIVIL SERVANTS?
WHERE THE
VISIT CAN MRS ANSON WITH THE
/GOVERNOR: