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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1989

FREEDOMS IMPORTANT TO HK WAY OF LIFE: GOVERNOR

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SPEECH

WAY OF

THE FREEDOMS UNDER WHICH HONG KONG OPERATES, SUCH AS OF AND OF PUBLICATION, ARE VERY IMPORTANT ΤΟ THE TERRITORY'S LIFE, AND MUST BE PRESERVED, THOUGH PEOPLE SHOULD USE THEM WITH A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID IN LOS ANGELES ON THURSDAY (US TIME).

"THEY ARE PART AND PARCEL OF HONG KONG, SIR DAVID SAID WHEN ANSWERING QUESTIONS AFTER SPEAKING TO THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL.

HE SAID THAT TRADITIONALLY HONG KONG HAS SURVIVED BECAUSE IT HAD NOT EXCESSIVELY BECOME INVOLVED IN THE INTERNAL POLITICS OF CHINA. JUST AS WE DID NOT WANT CHINA ΤΟ INVOLVE ITSELF IN THE INTERNAL EVENTS OF HONG KONG.

"AND THAT IS ONE THING THAT I THINK HONG KONG LOOK AT, NOT EXCESSIVELY INVOLVING THEMSELVES IN THE ACROSS THE BORDER, HE SAID.

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PEOPLE HAVE ΤΟ INTERNAL EVENTS

ON THE STATIONING OF CHINESE TROOPS IN THE SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION AFTER 1997, THE GOVERNOR SAID THIS WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHICH PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WERE SENSITIVE.

"SO WE'VE ASKED CHINA TO BE SENSITIVE ABOUT THE THEY EXERCISE A RIGHT WHICH THEY UNDOUBTEDLY DO HAVE,

ON THE QUESTION OF EMIGRATION FROM HONG KONG AND SIR DAVID SAID THAT IF THE ECONOMY CONTINUED TO

BOOM. WOULD NEED TO BRING IN MORE PEOPLE THAN PREVIOUSLY OUTSIDE TO MEET THE LIKELY NEED FOR TALENT.

WAY IN WHICH HE SAID.

ITS EFFECTS, THE TERRITORY THOUGHT FROM

IMMIGRATION KONG ECONOMY

"WE WILL BE LOOKING CAREFULLY AT OUR OWN ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY MATCH WHAT THE HONG IS GOING TO NEED OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OR 30,' HE SAID.

ASKED WHAT CHINA WOULD GAIN FROM HONG KONG AFTER 1997. THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT CHINA ALREADY GAINED AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT NOW, WITH HONG KONG BEING A TRADING BRIDGE AND ALSO A BRIDGE FOR INVESTMENT INTO CHINA.

HE ALSO SAID THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN CHINA THERE HAD BEEN A TENDENCY TO DISREGARD THE JOINT

OR DECLARATION UNDERESTIMATE

SIGNIFICANCE, AND DISREGARD THE WAY

WHICH IN CHINA COMMITTED ITSELF TO A VERY PAR-SIGHTED, VERY REMARKABLE CONCEPT OF DEALING WITH THE ENDING OF A LEASE.

ITS

A IN THE JOINT DECLARATION CHINA HAD GAINED

TREMENDOUS BOOST

TO ITS INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION.

"WHAT IT WILL GAIN IN 1997 THROUGH THE SUCCESSFUL CARRYING

QUT

THE

OF THAT ARRANGEMENT IS AGAIN A BOOST TO ITS INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION.. AND I DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF US

SHOULD UNDERESTIMATE

SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT, HE ADDED.

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