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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1987

HONG KONG WOULD THEREFORE NOT BE SWALLOWED UP BY CHINA IN 1997, BUT DISTINCT, UNDER CHINA'S INSTEAD WOULD BE A PART OF CHINA, IMAGINATIVE CONCEPT OF "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS".

AND

IN PRESS COMMENTARIES CHINA'S COMMITMENT

SIR DAVID SAID GLOOMY VIEWS EXPRESSED AND POINTED TO WERE SURELY NOT JUSTIFIED, IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.

TO

EFFORT AND NUMBROUS AND DISCUSSIONS NOW AS PART OF

CHINA HAD DEVOTED CONSIDERABLE TIME, OFFICIALS TO THE CONTINUOUS NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY

FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP

THE IMPLEMENTATION.

TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION, THE IN THE VITAL FIELDS OF TRADE,

ALREADY BRING IMPLEMENTED, HE JOINT DECLARATION'S PROVISIONS WERE

BEEN MADE IN DEALING WITH THE EMPHASISED. "AND A GOOD START HAS HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS IN WHICH HONG KONG PARTICIPATES NOW AND WILL WISH TO CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE 1997.

AFTER

AND

OR

GROWTH

THE ECONOMY OF SIR DAVID ALSO REFERRED TO THE

EITHER UNDERWAY PROJECTS STRESSED

MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURAL THAT PLANNED REPRESENTED A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT STRETCHING BEYOND 1997.

AND SAID THE CONFIDENCE IS WITH

HE MENTIONED LARGE PRIVATE SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS, GOVERNMENT WAS ALSO "PUTTING ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MANY LARGE ROAD, TUNNEL AND NEW TOWN PROJECTS".

REFERRING TO POLITICAL REFORM, SIR DAVID TOLD THAT THIS WAS ANOTHER ASPECT THAT SOME OF THE WORLD'S TO HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD.

HIS AUDIENCE PRESS APPEARED

DEVELOPING ASPIRATIONS

HE EXPLAINED THAT FOR SOME YEARS HONG KONG HAD BEEN A MORE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, TO SATISFY THE CHANGING

MORE SOPHISTICATED AND COSMOPOLITAN OF A BETTER EDUCATED AND EVER POPULATION.

THERE HAD BEEN SOMB THAT PROCESS WAS CONTINUING, AND WHILE

FOR RADICAL DEVIATION FROM THE LIVELY DEBATE, NO-ONE WAS CALLING FUNDAMENTAL POLICIES THAT HAD SERVED HONG KONG WELL, HE SAID.

SIR DAVID

SAID HONG KONG WAS

ΤΟ BUILD

ON THE STAKE IN ITS

SET FAIR ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PAST, AND BOTH WEST AND EAST HAD A SUCCESS.

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