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A nice ceremony; I think a good demonstration of the way the community is now uniting to help the mentally-handicapped. In this case, of course, the disciplined forces are all represented here raising funds for the Special Olympics in July, so that was a quite heartening morning, I think. Any questions?
Question: Concerning the Airport Authority Bill, what is the progress now? Is it a fact that the Hong Kong Government must get the support from the Chinese side before gazetting the Bill?
FS: We have, of course, always said that we would discuss the Bill with the Chinese side before we put it to LegCo and that is what we've been doing. I am hopeful that those discussions will be finished pretty soon. Clearly, we want to give LegCo as much time as we can to consider it and hopefully get it through before the end of the session end of July. So, we will try and get it gazetted and to LegCo as soon as possible. At the moment we are still talking to the Chinese side. I don't expect any serious problem.
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Question: But have you got any deadline?
FS: I don't have any deadline, no.
Question: About a month ago, we heard Director Lu Ping has said there is hope that the Financial Support Agreement will come out within weeks but so far we've seen nothing; are there any new difficulties that have arisen?
FS: It is very difficult to give an analysis of why it is taking so long. As you say, there were some hopeful statements - actually, quite a number of hopeful statements. I think we're very nearly there. But we've thought that in the past. But I am optimistic that we will get it fairly soon. It is very important that we do get the Financial Support Agreements fairly soon because - particularly for the airport - we need to enter into some new commitments quite soon, actually, within the next month or so. So, unless we get the agreements and then of course we have to go to Finance Committee as well for one or two aspects - then we do risk some delay.
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Question: So have any new problems arisen so that the information may be (inaudible)?
FS: No, I don't think there are any new problems. I think the subject has been extremely well discussed; we just need, now, to get the will to actually sign up.
Question: Concerning the Budget and the transfer of sovereignty, is there any progress on fixing a date for a new round of JLG expert meetings?
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