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SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1990

DECISION ON CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS SHORTLY: FOREIGN SECRETARY

MR

HURD,

AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN

THAT SAID

THE DOUGLAS

TODAY (SATURDAY)

DECISION CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR HONG KONG IN 1991 SHOULD BE THE BRITISH AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENTS WITHIN WEEKS.

ON

TAKEN BY

OF A KONG

AT REPORTERS

THE

AT SPEAKING TO

AIRPORT

START THE FOUR-DAY VISIT, MR HURD SAID THAT BESIDES SEEING AS MUCH OF HONG

TO EXPLAIN AND MEETING AS MANY PEOPLE AS HE COULD, HE HAD ALSO COME

THAT THE DECISIONS THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN AND TO PREPARE THOSE DECISIONS WERE STILL TO BE TAKEN.

"IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS WE HAVE TAKEN DECISIONS ON TWO MAIN PROBLEMS WHICH WERE FACING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS TO SAY ON PASSPORTS AND ON BOAT PEOPLE.

THREE

CONSTITUTIONAL

"THE THIRD MAIN DECISION WHICH WE AND THE HONG KONG

ARRANGEMENTS FOR WILL HAVE TO TAKE, ON FOLLOW, I HOPE, WITHIN WEEKS," MR HURD SAID.

OF THE THAT

GOVERNMENT 1991, WILL

THE DECISIONS I'VE "WE SHALL TAKE OUR DECISIONS,

MENTIONED, YEARS, IN A COOL OTHER DECISIONS WHICH MAY COME UP IN THE NEXT FEW

THEN MAKING UP OTHER PEOPLE, BUT ΤΟ AND CONSIDERED WAY, LISTENING

THE

INTERESTS WHAT IS NEEDED IN OUR MINDS ON

FUTURE AND LONG-TERM

T HE ADDED. OF THIS AMAZING AND SUCCESSFUL TERRITORY,

MR HURD SAID THAT IN THE NEXT FEW SECRETARY WOULD BE WORKING MORE CLOSELY GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

YEARS THE BRITISH FOREIGN THAN EVER BEFORE WITH THE

TO HONG KONG

"AND OBVIOUSLY HE WILL DO THAT BEST IF HE COMES AND SEES THE PROBLEMS AND SUCCESSES FOR HIMSELF," HE SAID.

"DURING THIS VISIT I WILL BE SEEING AS MUCH AS TIME, AND MEETING AS MANY PEOPLE AS I CAN. I WILL BE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE GOVERNOR AND HIS SENIOR OFFICIALS EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.

I CAN IN THE HAVING DETAILED AND WITH THE

4.

'I WANT

OPPORTUNITY

THE TAKE TO

——

CROSS-SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY

ΤΟ

TALK 'TO A

WIDE

BUSINESSMEN, BANKERS, PROFESSIONAL IN THE STREET," MR HURD

PEOPLE AND, I HOPE, THE MAN AND THE WOMAN SAID.

THE

HONG BORDER ANI}

THE FOREIGN SECRETARY SAID HE HOPED TO SEE A GOOD DEAL OF

A HOUSING ESTATE, TOWN, NEW INCLUDING VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE CAMPS.

KONG

HE

A

PAYING

TRADE

WOULD ALSO BE

A VISIT TO THE BRITISH

AND ADDRESSING A LUNCHEON COMMISSION, TALKING TO LOCAL BUSINESSMEN HOSTED BY THE HONG KONG GENERAL AND BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

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