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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1987

PEKING TALKS USEFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING, CO-OPERATION

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TODAY (FRIDAY) THAT

HE

"VERY USEFUL AND UNDERSTANDING

RANGE OF

ISSUES

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID FOUND HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH CHINESE OFFICIALS IN PEKING AS A WAY OF MAKING SURE THAT THERE IS ADEQUATE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA ON ALL THE WHICH AFFECT BOTH SIDES".

SPEAKING AT THE AIRPORT ON HIS RETURN SAID HE WAS FOLLOWING A PATTERN OF VISITS WHICH HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE SIR EDWARD YOUDE, ADDING THAT HE WOULD VISITS OF THIS SORT TO PEKING AGAIN IN THE FUTURE.

FROM

CHINA,

SIR

DAVID

CONTINUE ΤΟ MAKE

GOVERNMENT AND

THE GOVERNOR SAID HE HAD DISCUSSED WITH CHINESE OFFICIALS ABOUT THE 1987 REVIEW ON THE DEVELOPMENTS IN REPRESENTATIVE THE PUBLIC REACTION THAT THERE HAD BEEN SO FAR.

A LARGE NUMBER

OF

HE SAID: "I EXPLAINED THAT THERE HAD BEEN RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY OFFICE, WHICH WAS OVER 50,000 WHEN I LEFT.

OFFICE

WOULD BE

FINISHING

ITS

A REPORT HAVE A CLEAR

"I EXPLAINED THAT THE SURVEY WORK AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, BUT WE WOULDN'T BE RECEIVING UNTIL WELL INTO NEXT MONTH, SO WE WOULD NOT UNTIL THEN PICTURE OF THE OUTCOME OF THE SURVEY, HE ADDED.

TE

SURVEY OFFICE WAS NOT

ASKED WHETHER HE ACTUALLY DISCUSSED THE WAY THE REPORT WAS TO BE EVALUATED, SIR DAVID SAID THE SURVEY OFFICE EVALUATING VIEWS.

SURVEY

IS

REPORT

THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT IT WILL THEN BE LAID

ΤΟ

"THE

OFFICE

MAKING A GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL. I EXPLAINED THAT ONCE THE

GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL, THE HAS BEEN GIVEN TO BEFORE LEGCO AND BECOME A PUBLIC DOCUMENT, HE ADDED.

SIR

DAVID

SAID DURING

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IN

HE PEKING,

IN RELATIONS

HAD ALSO HONG

KONG

HIS STAY

THE DISCUSSED WITH CHINESE OFFICIALS ABOUT WITH CHINA AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.

THE HE ALSO TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK

CHINESE GOVERNMENT OF FOR THE

THEY HAD ACTION

TAKEN

PROBLEM THE WITH ON DEALING

WHO THEN CAME VIETNAMESE REFUGEES WHO HAD BEEN SETTLED IN CHINA AND TO HONG KONG ILLEGALLY.

SIR DAVID SAID HE HAD TALKS WITH

AND MACAU KONG

ZHOU

MR

VICE FOREIGN MINISTER

AFFAIRS

OFFICE

OF

THE STATE

NAN YESTERDAY AND IN THE AFTERNOON HE HAD TALKS WITH MR LI HOU AND LU PING OF THE HONG

COUNCIL.

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