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Question: Thank you. I would like to know about beliefs and religions.
Governor: Mine, or .. ?
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Question: After 1997.
Governor: It's an extremely important question and one which, I know, causes worry to some people in Hong Kong. The guarantees of continuing freedom of worship are absolutely explicit in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law and I say to you as myself a practising Christian that I'm sure that religious belief is safe and secure in Hong Kong. I don't say that lightly. I've thought about the issue very carefully and I believe very strongly that religious belief and the ability to practise your own faith, whatever it may be, will be secure after 1997.
One of the interesting things is how many people in public life, in the civil service, in politics and so on, are themselves strong and committed religious believers and that I am sure is an additional guarantee for religious belief in the future.
FOT
Thank you very much indeed and I hope you'll come again next year."*::
End/Friday, October 13, 1995
Transcript of CS's question-and-answer session
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The following is the transcript of the Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan's question-and-answer session with members of the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong after delivering a speech at a luncheon meeting of the #association today (Friday):
Question: Mrs Chan, I have a hard question and a soft question.
Chief Secretary: Let's have the hard one first.