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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1989

"I DON'T KNOW WHEN I WILL BE GOING TO PEKING. I WOULD GO ON THE REGULAR BASIS ABOUT ONCE A YEAR.

NORMALLY

I WOULD EXPECT TO

GO

"I'VE GOT NO PRESENT PLANS TO GO. BUT SOMETIME OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANY PRECISE DATES. I HAVE NO PLANS.

ALWAYS GO "BUT IF I WENT. I WOULD GO FOR THE SAME PURPOSE I'D

EXPLAIN DIRECTLY TO CHINESE AND THAT IS TO BE ABLE TO

LEADERS VIEW NEEDS TO BE WHAT THE CONCERNS OF HONG KONG ARE AND WHAT IN MY DONE TO TRY TO MEET THOSE CONCERNS.' THE GOVERNOR SAID.

IF

OMELCO CONSENSUS ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT HELPFUL: CS

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THE GOVERNMENT WILL WANT TO RESPOND FAVOURABLY TO THE CONCENSUS REACHED BY OMELCO MEMBERS ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IF THERE IS A CLEAR OF MESSAGE THAT IT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WANT TO SEE BY WAY POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

THE

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER A GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY AT

HAD BEEN VERY NEW YMCA CENTRE IN TSIM SHA TSUI, SIR DAVID SAID IT

CONSENSUS ON ALL OMELCO MEMBERS AGREEING HELPFUL

HAVE TO POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN HONG KONG.

ΤΟ

THE

CAN

"IF WE CAN BUILD ON IT NOW IN THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, WE BUILD ON IT IN THE DISTRICT BOARDS AND IN THE COMMUNITY GROUPS, IN THE POLITICAL GROUPS ALL OF WHOM ARE EXPRESSING A GREAT THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF HONG KONG.

INTEREST

IN

OF

VERY

THE GOVERNMENT "AND THAT WE CAN HAVE THEN A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THAT THE CONSENSUS IS WHAT PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WANT TO SEE BY WAY POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, WE WOULD CERTAINLY WISH TO RESPOND TO IT FAVOURABLY INDEED, SIR DAVID SAID.

[

AS

MAUDE ASKED FOR HIS RESPONSE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF MR FRANCIS

SECRETARY SAID THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR HONG KONG, THE CHIEF ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT KNOW MR MAUDE PERSONALLY, IT WAS VERY USEFUL HAVE A MINISTER WHO WOULD BE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ΤΟ

SIR DAVID ADDED THAT HE LOOKED FORWARD TO SEEING MR HONG KONG.

MAUDE IN

AGAINST DEPARTMENTS

FOR ASKED

VIETNAMESE

THAT HAD

BEEN

HIS COMMENTS ON ALLEGATIONS

THE PEOPLE, BOAT

SAID IN

ARRANGEMENTS AND IN RUNNING THE CAMPS HAD DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB.

OF

DEALING WITH

POLICE CHIEF SECRETARY

THE PROBELM

BRUTALITY

THE MAKING

/"I THINK