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REGIONAL TRADE, SIR

GROWING BOTH

ON ASIA-PACIFIC

DAVID SAID ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE REQUIRED CLOSER ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION BILATERALLY AND REGIONALLY.

"HONG KONG IS BEING ADMITTED TO THE CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE (PECC), TO JOIN JAPAN AND 14 IN THAT WELL-ESTABLISHED REGIONAL FORUM.

PACIFIC

ECONOMIC OTHER ECONOMIES

"WE HOPE THAT WE CAN JOIN THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ASIA ECONOMIC CONFERENCE (APEC) IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

"FOR

PACIFIC

CONTACTS AND REGIONAL GROWTH

IT IS

ESTABLISHING BY EXCHANGING IDEAS, DEVELOPING MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CAN PROMOTE THE HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE," HE SAID.

AND

JAPAN PROCESS,

AS THE LARGEST AND MOST ADVANCED ECONOMY IN THE REGION, PARTICULARLY WELL-PLACED TO TAKE A LEADING ROLE IN THIS SIR DAVID SAID.

WAS

"HONG KONG, AS AN OPEN-MARKET ECONOMY THAT LIVES BY TRADE, WILL DO ITS BEST TO PLAY ITS PART TO THE FULL,

..

HE ADDED.

GOVERNOR MEETS JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER

* * * * *

THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC TRADE MISSION TO JAPAN, GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, CONCLUDED A HECTIC ROUND TOKYO TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ON AN ENTHUSIASTIC NOTE.

HEADED BY THE OF MEETINGS IN

PRIME BY THE COUNCIL, BARONESS DUNN, AND THE SENIOR

GOVERNOR MEETING THE JAPANESE THE DAY BEGAN WITH THE MINISTER, MR TOSHIKI KAIFU. SIR DAVID WAS ACCOMPANIED CHAIRMAN OF THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, SIR JOHN WHITEHEAD, MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR ALLEN LEE.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JAPAN WAS HIGH ON THE MINISTER.

AGENDA

GROWING TRADE BETWEEN HONG

OF THE

DISCUSSIONS

WITH

KONG AND THE PRIME

AFTER THE

MEETING SIR

THAT HR TOLD REPORTERS

HAD IN TERMS OF JAPANESE MENTIONED THE IMPORTANT ROLE HONG KONG PLAYED TRADE WITH CHINA.

DAVID

HE SAID A QUARTER OF

TOTAL JAPANESE

EXPORTS ΤΟ CHINA WENT

THROUGH HONG KONG.

"I THINK MR KAIFU IS VERY INTERESTED IN THE ECONOMIC ROLE HONG KONG CAN PLAY IN TERMS

RELATIONS ECONOMIC OF JAPANESE CHINA."

THAT

WITH

TO JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS STRESSING ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE AVAILABLE IN HONG KONG.

THE

/"IF PEOPLE

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