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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1988

RESERVATIONS,

FORWARD BY SAID NO FIRM ALTHOUGH SOME OF

NOTING THAT A LIST OF LIKELY PROJECTS HAD BEEN PUT

MRS CHOW BACK ITS THE GOVERNMENT TO DECISION HAD BEEN MADE ON A NUMBER OF THESE PROJECTS, THEM WERE LONG OVERDUE.

WORKS FOR EXPO, WHICH $37 BILLION

SHE SAID THAT THE ESTIMATE FOR DIRECT AMOUNTED TO $2 BILLION, WAS MINIMAL WHEN COMPARED TO THE PUBLIC SPENDING OF 1988.

TO THE LIST OF LIKELY THE ESTIMATE WAS NEGLIGIBLE COMPARED PROJECTS WHICH WERE ESTIMATED TO BE OVER $200 BILLION, SHE ADDED.

THE

OF ABSENCE

RESEARCH DATA AND ASSESSMENT THAT

SHE POINTED OUT THAT, IN FIGURES, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT THE GOVERNMENT'S THE PROJECT COULD NOT BE FINANCIALLY VIABLE.

SHE SAID

A THAT, GIVEN

MORE INGENIOUS ATTITUDE ON THE PART OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO WORK THE ESSENTIALS NEED TO BE DISPLACED OR SACRIFICED.

"WE HAVE NINE YEARS TO PLAN, RESCHEDULE AND TREMENDOUS FLEXIBILITY AND PRAGMATISM. TO SAY WE

MRS CHOW SAID. MUST BE TAKEN AS, AN EXCUSE,

Th

AND

ENTHUSIASTIC IT OUT, NONE OF

PROCEED. WE HAVE CANNOT DO IS, AND

INTENTION SHOULD BE REGISTERED

HON THE

ΤΟ

MARTIN REQUEST

LEE TODAY

BRITISH THE

URGED THE REGISTER ITS

STRONGLY (THURSDAY)

TO GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT INTENTION OF HOSTING AN EXPOSITION IN HONG KONG IN 1997.

DURING COUNCIL

THE EXPO MOTION

SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE DEBATE, MR LEE SAID THAT TO SAY NO TO THE EXPO IDEA WAS IRRESPONSIBLE, BECAUSE THE REASONS SO FAR GIVEN WERE INCONCLUSIVE.

REGISTER THE

"IF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WERE TO DECIDE NOT TO

MOST CERTAINLY INTENTION TO HOST EXPO IN 1997 IN HONG KONG, IT WOULD LEAVE A LURKING DOUBT IN THE MINDS OF ALL OF US YEARS FROM NOW WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE DECISION HAD GONE THE OTHER WAY?"

HE ADDED THAT IF, FOR WHATEVER REASON, KONG GOVERNMENT WERE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER AN EXPO IN 1997, IT WAS STILL NOT THE END OF THE

AS TO

THE HONG OR LACK OF IT,

INTENTION ΤΟ HOST AN MATTER.

/HE SUGGESTED