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Let me go further. When the Vice Premier talked about the importance of the Preparatory Committee listening to people in Hong Kong and taking the views of people in Hong Kong; when, in the rules, I think, governing the conduct of the Committee it notes the importance of listening to all shades of opinion; I hope that that doesn't just include the Governor and members of the Administration but members of Hong Kong's representative institutions as well.
Mr Chan Wing-chan (In Chinese): Mr Governor, what I actually meant was, in order to show your sincerity in co-operating with the SARPC will you be inviting, taking the initiative to invite these people either together or in batches, to meet with you? Will you take the initiative in other words?
Governor: I think the honourable member has made a very sensible suggestion and I will be delighted to follow it up.
Miss Christine Loh: Governor, I'd like to ask you how you will put together your policy address, the final policy address later on this year, because you said in your last policy address that obviously you will have to perhaps do your next policy address in a completely different way? I believe the team designate, led by the future Chief Executive of course, may actually not be in place during the time when you are drafting your policy address. So I wonder whether you intend to work with the Preparatory Committee on the drafting of your policy address or how you are going to put it together?
Governor: I'll put it together with my customary application and verve, with the help of the excellent team of staff in the Hong Kong Administration. But self-evidently the Governor's policy address in the autumn of 1996, is going to be a very different creature to the policy addresses of the last decades. I daresay it will be unique because I guess that no Chief Executive Designate will be facing the same challenging caesura in Hong Kong's history that we face in 1997. I think it would be extremely foolish if I were to try to map out the next five years in the same sort of way that I did when I made my first policy address in 1992. What I'll want to do and I don't want to give away all my trade secrets at this stage, what I will want to do is to review progress in working through the five year agenda that I set out in 1992, I'll want to talk about the Joint Declaration and the progress we've made in trying to ensure that the Joint Declaration is a reality after 1997. I'll want to talk about Hong Kong's role in the world and I'll want to talk, without in any way being prescriptive about the future, about some of the challenges which I believe Hong Kong will face and perhaps suggest ways in which they could be addressed. But I certainly won't attempt to steal the thunder of my successor who will want to set out for him or herself the agenda for the SAR Government.