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OR I'M HAPPY

UNHAPPY THAT WHETHER H.E.:

SAY I COULDN'T

AN EXERCISE TO WITH THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT. IT WAS

PEOPLE IN HONG KONG TRY TO BE AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE ABOUT WHAT

THOSE VIEWS

ARE,

OF ISSUES. SERIES

SO WHATEVER ANY ONE

PART

OF

THEM

IS. DONE, I

IS

THOUGHT ABOUT A WHETHER 1 AM HAPPY OR UNHAPPY ABOUT REALLY IRRELEVANT. IF YOU MEAN ABOUT THE WAY IN WHICH IT WAS

OUT VERY THAT THE SURVEY OFFICE CARRIED THINK IT'S RIGHT TO SAY

IN ITS TERMS OF PRECISELY, THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT IT HAD BEEN GIVEN

THE PUBLIC RIGHT FROM REFERENCE, AND THOSE TERMS OF REFERENCE WERE

CARE. BEGINNING. THEY'VE CARRIED OUT THEM OUT EXACTLY, AND WITH GREAT

DETAIL THAT TWO OTHER POINTS I MAKE ON THAT. ONE IS, THAT THE MASS OF

THE APPENDICES AS COMES WITH THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT, IF YOU READ

PEOPLE OF HONG WELL, IS VERY INTERESTING INDEED ON THE VIEWS OF THE

LONG TIME ΤΟ KONG ABOUT A WHOLE SERIES OF ISSUES. I KNOW IT TAKES A

SOCIETY, IT'S WELL HONG KONG READ THROUGH, BUT FOR ANY STUDENT OF

COMES TO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WORTH READING. THIRD POINT,

PAPER, IT WILL MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT SHOULD GO INTO THE WHITE

APPEARS IN THE SURVEY OFFICE BE TAKING ACCOUNT OF EVERYTHING THAT

CURRENT REPORT. THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT RULING OUT ONE PARTICULAR

THE EXPRESSION OF PUBLIC OF PUBLIC OPINION, ONE PARTICULAR FORM OF

HOWEVER THEY OPINION; ALL OF THOSE VIEWS WILL BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, WERE PUT FORWARD.

WHEN THE

BERN MAKING ANY HAD WITH BRITISH OPTIMISTIC ARE

ANTHONY FLORES. OF COMMERCIAL RADIO: HAVE WE PROGRESS SINCE THE MEETING THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY AUTHORITIES ON THE TERRITORY'S DEFENCE COSTS, AND HOW YOU THAT WE WILL REACH AN AGREEMENT BEFORE THE PRESENT PACT RUNS OUT?

TRYING AN AGREEMENT.

HAD TWO MAJOR ROUNDS OF H.R. WE'RE STILL TALKING. THEY'VE TALKS AND THEY'VE HAD TALKS AT A LOWER LEVEL BETWEEN OFFICIALS TO WORK ON SOME OF THE DETAILS. WE HAVEN'T YET REACHED 1 CANNOT, AT THIS STAGE, SAY WHEN WE WILL REACH AN AGREEMENT. I IN FACT, OF COURSE, SAY WHETHER WE WILL REACH AN BUT I AM HOPEFUL THAT WE WILL REACH AN AGREEMENT ONE RUNS OUT EARLY NEXT YEAR.

AGREEMENT

CAN'T OR NOT,

BEFORE THE PRESENT

IT 19 FAIR KEVIN SINCLAIR: YES, SIR DAVID, DO YOU THINK THAT

PERCENTAGE HIGH

FOR THE UPKEEP OF FOR BRITAIN TO REFUSE TO PAY A

PAY FOR HONG KONG TO THE GARRISON, AND DO YOU THINK THAT IT IS 75 PER CENT OF THE BILL?

FAIR

MAKE SURE

THAT COSTS THAT

H.E.: I THINK THE ONLY ANSWER THAT I CAN SENSIBLY GIVE TO IS TWOFOLD. ONE, HONG KONG HAS BEEN PAYING PART OF THE GARRISON FOR A VERY LONG TIME. TWO, HONG KONG ALWAYS TRIES TO IT PAYS AS LITTLE AS IT POSSIBLY CAN.

POST: YOU EARLIER SAID ANN QUON, OF THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING

ΤΟ THE THAT THERE WAS A NEED TO MAINTAIN THE RATE TO THE, OR THE PEG,

AS KEEPING THE U.S. DOLLAR, BUT MAINTAINING THE PEG IS NOT THE SAME

PLANNING TO RE-PEG RATE AS IT IS PRESENTLY. DO YOU SEE ANY, ARE YOU

YOU CONSIDER OR RE-VALUE THE DOLLAR, AND IF NOT, AT WHAT POINT WOULD DOING SO?

I HOPE I DIDN'T LEAVE H.E.: I SEE, THANK YOU.

PRECISELY ABOUT THAT BY MAINTAINING THE PEG I MRANT PEG AT ITS PRESENT LEVEL.

ANY UNCERTAINTY

MAINTAINING THE

/ANN QUON