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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN – SUPPLEMENT

ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES BEACONSFIELD HOUSE. HONG KONG TEL: 5-233191

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1985

EMBARGO NOTE:

The following is embargoed until 2.30 am on Wednesday, January 23, 1985 to coincide with its release in London.

LECTURE TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE

BY SIR EDWARD YOUDE GONG MBE, GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG

THE POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS

FOR HONG KONG

Introduction

Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am very grateful to The Stock Exchange for giving me an opportunity to talk before such a representative audience about the future prospects for Hong Kong. The timing is particularly opportune. Just one month has passed since the Prime Minister signed in Peking the Sino-British agreement on the future of Hong Kong.

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history.

For Hong Kong itself, the agreement marks a new stage in our It has removed auch of the uncertainty of the last three years, and has set a course for Hong Kong for the next half century or more. It presents Hong Kong with both new opportunities and new

challenges.

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The agreement also marks a new stage in Anglo-Chinese relations. It has removed an issue which could have caused immense difficulty in the relations between the two countries. A prolonged dispute would have had a highly damaging effect on Hong Kong itself.

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