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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1989

"THERE IS JAPAN WHOSE DOMESTIC DEMAND AND INVESTMENT

ASIA-PACIFIC GIVE MUCH

ΤΟ IMPETUS

THE ACCELERATED

IN

THE

IN

THE

FAST

GROWTH REGION," HE SAID, ADDING THAT THERE WAS ALSO SOUTH KOREA AND THE DEVELOPING ASEAN COUNTRIES INCLUDING SINGAPORE.

1

+

"IS

ENDOWED

ALL THE

RIGHT

WITH SUCH AS EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION WELL-MOTIVATED INFRASTRUCTURE, FINANCIAL

AND ADAPTIVE

"HONG KONG, HE CONTINUED, ATTRIBUTES AND THE REQUISITE ASSETS AND TRANSPORT LINKS, SOUND AND COMMITTED MIDDLE-MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL, AN EFFICIENT

TO MAINTAIN AN WORKFORCE AND AN OPEN ECONOMY

DEVELOPMENT GROWTH AS A RESULT REGION.

OF

THE

—

OF

IMPRESSIVE LEVEL OF RAPIDLY EXPANDING

THIS

THAT ECONOMIC FACTORS ALONE WOULD BE NAIVE

'WHILE I DO NOT WISH TO SUGGEST WILL DETERMINE THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF HONG KONG, IT BY OFFERED то IGNORE THE TREMENDOUS INCENTIVES CONSIDERATIONS TO PARTIES CONCERNED TO ENSURE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

SINO-BRITISH

JOINT

SUCH ECONOMIC

FULL AND FAITHFUL

MR DECLARATION,

WIGGHAM

SAID.

ENTERED INTO FORCE THE DECLARATION HE SAID SINCE THE JOINT

ABOUT THE TASK OF GIVING BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS HAD SET EFFECT TO THE VARIOUS PROMISES SET OUT IN IT.

EFFORTS, SUCH

HE

TOLD

HIS AUDIENCE,

WERE SPECIFICALLY

THREE TIMES A THREE YEARS

CHANNELLED THROUGH THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT LIAISON GROUP, A DIPLOMATIC BODY ESTABLISHED BY THE JOINT DECLARATION WHICH MEETS YEAR AND WOULD CONTINUE TO DO SO UP TO THE YEAR BEYOND THE HANDOVER DATE.

2000

ABLE BEEN

OWN WERE IN

SMOOTH

ITS TO SECURE HE SAID HONG KONG HAD ALREADY VOICE IN A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE FORUMS AND NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUING ON OTHER AGREEMENTS IN FULFILMENT OF PROMISES CONTAINED

KONG HONG

TO

A ENSURE THE JOINT DECLARATION FOR POST 1997 TRANSITION AT THAT TIME.

SIMPLE

WHICH

IN

THE

ON MATTERS WITHIN HONG KONG ITSELF, MR WIGGHAM SAID ONE BUT VERY SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLE OF HOW PROMISES IN THE JOINT DECLARATION WERE BEING FULFILLED WAS THAT LAND LEASES WERE NOW BEING ISSUED EXPIRE IN THE YEAR 2047

JOINT DECLARATION.

THE 50 YEARS

OF AUTONOMY

PLEDGED

"THE BUILDING BLOCKS REALLY WIGGIAM NOTED.

ARE BEING PUT INTO

PLACE,

MR

HIGH SCHOOL HAD A PARTICULAR

MR WIGGHAM WAS ALSO INVITED TO ADDRESS A GROUP OF STUDENTS SPECIALISING IN HISTORY AND ECONOMICS WHO INTEREST IN THE HONG KONG ISSUE.

"I WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STUDENTS AND

MR WIGGHAM SAID. SEARCHING NATURE OF THEIR QUESTIONS,

THE

"

"IT WAS YET ANOTHER INDICATION OF THE GROWING INTEREST IN

HE ADDED. KONG AND ITS FUTURE AT ALL LEVELS IN THE UNITED STATES,

HONG

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MR WIGGHAM ALSO GAVE FIVE DIFFERENT MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND

AFFAIRS WORLD THE BE GIVING ANOTHER ADDRESS PHILADELPHIA.

WOULD COUNCIL OF

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