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Governor to meet Japanese Emperor
The Government has been informed by the Imperial Palace of Japan that the Emperor and Empress will meet with the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, and Mrs Patten, at 10.30 am on Friday (December 16), at the Imperial Palace, during the Governor's official visit to Japan.
Mr and Mrs Patten will arrive in Japan this (Tuesday) evening. During the four- day visit, the Governor will meet the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, other senior ministers, Government officials and leading businessmen. He will also meet two former Prime Ministers.
End/Tuesday, December 13, 1994
Governor meets Korean Trade Minister
The Governor, The Rt Hon Christopher Patten, today (Tuesday) wound up the first official visit by a Hong Kong Governor to the Republic of Korea with a strong endorsement of Dr Kim Chul-su, Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy to be the first chief for the new World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Mr Patten called on Dr Kim this morning and discussed with him a wide range of trade issues and the forthcoming inception of the WTO for which Dr Kim is one of the three candidates for the position as the Director-General.
Mr Kim thanked the Governor for the support from Hong Kong, which he described as one of the world's strongest and most influential free traders.
Earlier at a breakfast meeting of the Korean Newspaper Editors' Association at the Korean Press Centre, Mr Patten said Hong Kong considered Dr Kim an outstandingly good candidate for that important post.
"We think it would be the best possible demonstration of the rest of the world's commitment to making the liberalisation of trade a continuing effective global policy if the world was to support for that post a distinguished public official from one of the strongest economies in the world which is dismantling barriers and accepting liberalisation and globalisation as the best way into the future," Mr Patten said.