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Leaving the United States, the Financial Secretary will travel to Europe to sign three Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements and one Air Services Agreement with four countries before returning to Hong Kong.
During the first leg of his visit to the United States, Mr Tsang will stop at Los Angeles where he will meet the State Treasurer of California, Mr Matt Fong and deliver a speech at the Global Partners Forum at the University of California - Los Angeles on September 27.
He will also meet the Hong Kong Association of Southern California and the Hong Kong Schools Alumni Federation in Los Angeles.
Upon his arrival in Washington on September 29, Mr Tsang will meet the Deputy Secretary of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Mr Marcus Fedder, and China's Minister of Finance, Mr Liu Zhongli.
On the following day, Mr Tsang will attend an international banking seminar organised by the Board of Governor of Federal Reserve System before meeting the Governor of the People's Bank of China, Mr Dai Xianglong.
Mr Tsang will be hosting a luncheon for senior staff of the IMF and World Bank and leading figures in the international financial community as part of the programme to promote the Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF to be held in Hong Kong in September 1997. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will also be staging an exhibition on the 1997 Annual Meetings to provide delegates with information they will require to prepare for their trip to the territory next year.
On October 1, Mr Tsang will attend the opening ceremony of the 1996 IMF/WB Annual Meetings. He will then meet with Dr Stanley Fischer, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and attend a dinner hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Washington with local think-tankers.
Mr Tsang will then travel to Boston where he will visit the Harvard University John F Kennedy School of Government on October 2. He will attend a dinner hosted by the Dean of the School and speak to the staff of the school and the other guests from the Boston business and finance community.
He will arrive in New York on October 3 to officiate at the opening of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's newly established representative office there. He will make use of the opportunity to call on a few leading bankers while in New York.