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FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1990

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GOVERNOR DISCUSSE VARIOUS ISSUES WITH PM

YESTERDAY

HAD BEEN

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID IN LONDON (THURSDAY) EVENING THAT HIS MEETING WITH THE PRIME MINISTER USEFUL AND THAT HE HAD BROUGHT HER UP TO DATE ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES.

SPEAKING ΤΟ REPORTERS AFTER A ONE-HOUR MEETING WITH MRS INTEREST IN THATCHER, SIR DAVID SAID THE PRIME MINISTER TOOK A GREAT ISSUES CONCERNING HONG KONG.

THE ISSUES DISCUSSED INCLUDED THE STATE OF HONG KONG'S ECONOMY, MAJOR PROJECTS FOR THE FUTURE, VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE, THE TERRITORY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA AND THE COMING VISIT TO PEKING BY THE MINISTER WITH SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HONG KONG, MR FRANCIS MAUDE.

THE EFFORT

MADE

SIR DAVID EXPRESSED APPRECIATION OF

BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIME MINISTER ON THE NATIONALITY PACKAGE DESPITE POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN BRITAIN.

ASKED IF THERE WAS ANY INDICATION OF AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER

THE GOVERNOR SAID THE BILL WAS OF PASSPORTS TO BE ISSUED,

GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON JUNE 29 AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF CHANGING IT.

THE HE SAID

NATIONALITY PACKAGE WAS ONE OF THE WAYS OF

WAY TACKLING THE BRAIN DRAIN IN HONG KONG. THE OTHER

WAS DEVELOPING LOCAL TALENTS, INCREASING THE TERRITORY'S OWN EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES, BUILDING UNIVERSITIES AND SO ON.

BUT SIR DAVID SAID HE DID NOT THINK IT WOULD CAUSE A PROBLEM WITH MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS.

NATIONALITY

THE CHINESE

BILL,

SIR DAVID LEADERSHIP THE SO THAT AND SINISTER

AS FOR CHINA'S OBJECTION TO THE SAID IT WAS A QUESTION OF EXPLAINING TO PURPOSE OF THE PACKAGE WHICH WAS TO KEEP PEOPLE IN HONG KONG THEY CONTRIBUTED TO ITS SUCCESS AND THERE WAS NO HIDDEN MOTIVE BEHIND IT.

WOULD HE HOPED THE CHINESE GENUINELY BE A BENEFIT TO HONG KONG.

REALISE THAT THE PACKAGE WOULD

ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS, HE

THERE WAS NOTHING UNDERHAND WITH THE BASIC ABOUT IT AND THERE WAS NOTHING IN IT THAT CONFLICTED LAW.

SAID

HE STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTACT CHINA AND HE THOUGHT THE ATMOSPHERE NOW WAS BETTER MONTHS AGO.

BETWEEN HONG KONG THAN IT WAS

AND

SIX

/ON THE