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Question: Do you think Mr Lu's comments are baffling the morale of the civil servants?
Governor: I've said all I want to say.
Question: Do you think that Lu Ping's request for details of the nationalities of individual civil servants is justified...
Governor: Our statement yesterday made the position perfectly clear on that.
Question: If the Chinese Government wants to get vetted reports of the civil servants, will the Hong Kong Government pass that to them?
Governor: We made a statement yesterday. It's perfectly clear and I don't think it's helpful to add to it because, to repeat what I have said in case you didn't catch it, I think that it's in the interest of civil servants to try to cool this dispute and that which is not of our making, rather than indulge in government by sound bite.
Question: (on integrity checks)
Governor: I've just made a statement which all those of you who have taken it down will have been able to understand. We made a full statement yesterday. I am not going to add to the substance of the statement I made yesterday or to the words that I have just used because I have to have concern, and the Chief Secretary has to have a concern, for the morale and the well-being of the thousands of civil servants who work for us in Hong Kong. And I don't think it's very sensible to get involved, as I said earlier, in a public dispute. I think we should try to resolve these questions as calmly and dispassionately and objectively as possible in the interest of the people of Hong Kong.
End/Wednesday, January 18, 1995
Civil servants' information to be resolved in the interest of HK people
The transfer of information on civil servants should be dealt with as calmly, dispassionately and objectively as possible in the interest of the people of Hong Kong, the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, said today (Wednesday).
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At the media session after opening the 25th Hong Kong Fashion Week, Mr Patten reiterated that the statement yesterday was talking about the best way of securing the good government of Hong Kong.