WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1994
QUESTION: MR PATTEN, YOU SAY YOU'LL DO ANYTHING FOR THE FUTURE OF HONG CHINA, KONG. BUT SURELY YOU'RE WRONG HERE TO BECOME A PROBLEM IN THAT
IS THERE ANY WAY YOU CAN IN A SENSE, HAS MADE PERSONAL ATTACKS HELP TO RESOLVE THAT ISSUE?
HAVE
1.
THE POLICY
STAND
30,
OFFICIALS CHINESE THE PROBLEM THAT SOME GOVERNOR:
THINK I APPEARS TO BE WITH THE POLICY RATHER THAN ANYTHING ELSE. IS QUITE SIMPLY THAT TO STAND UP FOR THE JOINT DECLARATION, TO
AND THAT UP FOR THE CONCEPT OF "HONG KONG PEOPLE RUNNING HONG KONG",
A HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY". WE ARE GOING TO "HONG KONG HAVING CONTINUE TO STAND FOUR-SQUARE BY THE JOINT DECLARATION UNTIL JUNE 1997 AS SOVEREIGN AND FOR 50 YEARS THEREAFTER AS A PARTY TO THE
IS
SO AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY. DECLARATION, WHICH
NOBODY SHOULD EXPECT US TO GIVE UP OUR DETERMINATION TO SEE THAT HONG KONG AS
AS PROSPEROUS,
STABLE, AS SECURE, AS OPEN, AND AS FUTURE AS IT IS TODAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
JOINT
REMAINS THE
FREE IN
CLEAN GOVERNMENT AND PLAIN DEALING CONTRIBUTE TO HK'S SUCCESS
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THE GOVERNOR, THE RT HON CHRISTOPHER PATTEN, THIS (WEDNESDAY} AFTERNOON SAID HONG KONG HAD ACHIEVED WHAT IT HAD DONE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS PARTLY ON THE BASIS OF A REPUTATION FOR CLEAN GOVERNMENT AND FOR PLAIN DEALING.
RESPONDING
MA TO PRESS QUESTIONS AFTER HIS VISIT TO THE TSING BRIDGE WORK SITE ABOUT CRITICISM THAT THE GOVERNMENT DEALT WITH JARDINES ON THE
ALLOW CT9 ISSUE, THE GOVERNOR SAID: "IF YOU ONCE DECISIONS ECONOMIC
DECISIONS DECISIONS MADE BY GOVERNMENT,
ABOUT, TO BE POLITICISED FOR EXAMPLE, THE AWARD OF CONTRACTS AND PRANCHISES OR TO BE DISTORTED BY POLITICAL
YOU SERIOUSLY CONSIDERATIONS, UNDERMINE YOUR FUTURE PROSPERITY.
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"YOU SERIOUSLY UNDERMINE INVESTORS CONFIDENCE IN YOUR ECONOMY AND YOUR WAY OF DOING THINGS.
SUPPORTING THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY'S STATEMENT THIS MORNING, MR PATTEN SAID: "I THINK PEOPLE WHO MADE THOSE SORTS OF STATEMENT NEED TO
CAREFUL BE VERY
THAT
то DAMAGE THEY DON'T DO VERY SERIOUS
OUR REPUTATION IN HONG KONG AND TO OUR PROSPECTS."
HE SAID HE AND OTHER OFFICIALS WERE GOING TO SPEND A GOOD DEAL OF THE NEXT THREE YEARS GIVING PEOPLE REASSURANCES ABOUT THE
THE
OPEN, FREE, CONTINUED SUCCESSFUL, PROSPEROUS, AND SOCIETY HERE IN HONG KONG.
FUTURE
PLURALISTIC
PRC,
THE
** I HOPE THAT SOME OF OUR COLLEAGUES, OFFICIALS IN RECOGNISE THAT THEY HAVE TO GIVE REASSURANCE AS WELL," MR PATTEN SAID.
TO
"IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAY THE RIGHT THINGS. IT IS IMPORTANT ACT IN THE RIGHT WAY AS WELL BECAUSE ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS."
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