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I

THINK I'VE NOT TO SAY THAT WE WANTED AND

AND

ARGUED ACCEPT THE

THE UNITED

OR EVEN AND THEY

MR MAUDE: NO, I WOULD NOT SAY THAT AT ALL. FOUND VERY WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR IT, WHICH IS EVERYONE IS SAYING, "THIS IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING EVERYTHING

OF COURSE HONG KONG ARGUED, IS NOW PERFECT".

THEY PERSUASIVELY, FOR A LARGER PACKAGE THAN THIS BUT

THE GOVERNMENT FACES IN CONSTRAINTS WHICH POLITICAL

PACKAGE OF GETTING A BIGGER THE DIFFICULTIES KINGDOM, GETTING THIS PACKAGE THROUGH, CERTAINLY A BIGGER PACKAGE

LOT OF WORDS OF STRONG ACCEPT AND

AND I'VE HAD A APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FROM PEOPLE HERE FOR WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS THIS. DOING AND THE FIRM DECISION THE GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN TO PURSUE

STRONG SUPPORT FOR THIS AND THE MESSAGE I SHALL TAKE BACK IS OF PACKAGE AND THE STRONG FEELING THAT IT WOULD BE VERY BAD NEWS FOR HONG KONG WERE IT NOW TO PASS.

APPRECIATE

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COME BACK TO JOHN ELLIOTT {FINANCIAL TIMES): I AM SORRY TO

FRENCH WHERE WE BEGAN BUT I WANT TO RETURN TO THIS MYSTERY OF THE SCHEME. IN THE STATEMENT WHICH I HAVE NOW FOUND MY COPY OF. YESTERDAY YOU SAID: "THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT ARE IMPLEMENTING A SCHEME TO PROVIDE I HAVE GOT MY PASSPORTS OR RIGHT OF ENTRY FOR UP TO 1500" - AND

1'ARE IMPLEMENTING A NOUGHTS RIGHT SCHEME".

THIS TIME

—

"1500 EMPLOYEES".

MR MAUDE: THAT'S RIGHT.

JOHN ELLIOTT: IN ANSWER TO MY QUESTION JUST NOW, YOU SAID: "THE EFFECT". NOW "ARE FRENCH ARE INTENDING TO PUT THAT SCHEME INTO INTENDING

EARLIER TO PUT" IN MY ENGLISH AND YOU WERE QUERYING THAT

SO FIRSTLY, ARE THEY AS WELL IS DIFFERENT FROM "ARE IMPLEMENTING".

AND ALSO, WHERE IMPLEMENTING - AND IF SO, WHEN DID THEY START? THE 1500 COME FROM? WHOSE FIGURE IS THE 1500 AND WHERE DOES IT FROM?

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DOES COME

MR

MAUDE: THE FIGURE OF 1500, I THINK, COMES FROM FRANCE, BUT IT IS ONLY A

REPORTS IN

JOHN ELLIOTT: WHAT SORT?

GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR?

MR MAUDE: I THINK IT IS ACTUALLY FROM NEWSPAPER REPORTS BUT

JOHN ELLIOTT:

QUOTING NEWSPAPER REPORTS?

MR MAUDE: WELL I ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT I READ IN THE NEWSPAPERS.

CAN

I

FRENCH

JOHN ELLIOTT: WELL I DON'T, SO CAN WE START AGAIN, AND INFORMATION FROM THE FIRM YOU HAVE ANY YOU WHETHER GOVERNMENT OF A 1500 FIGURE, OR IS IT BASED ON NEWSPAPER REPORTS?

ASK

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