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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1991

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GOVT SPONSORS A SPEAKERS PROGRAMME TO PROMOTE HK OVERSEAS

SPONSORED SPEAKERS THE GOVERNMENT HAS FOR SEVERAL YEARS RUN A

OVERSEAS PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORT, PROGRAMME AS PART OF ITS OVERALL

DAVID FORD, TOLD

LEGISLATIVE THE THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

DAVID SAID IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HUI YIN-FAI, SIR

AND LEADING HONG KONG OFFICIALS UNDER THE

SENIOR PROGRAMME, PERSONALITIES WERE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE TIME ON THEIR OVERSEAS TRIPS TO

THE OPPORTUNITIES TALK TO INFLUENTIAL GROUPS ABOUT HONG KONG AND OFFERED.

IT

WING OF THE

INTERESTS

THE PROGRAMME IS CO-ORDINATED BY THE INFORMATION

THE EFFORTS OF THE MANY CHIEF SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND COMPLEMENTS OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO PROMOTE HONG KONG'S OVERSEAS.

-

OFFICE KEPT TRACK AND HOLIDAYS

AND SPEAKING

SIR DAVID SAID ON THE GOVERNMENT SIDE, HIS

BOTH DUTY VISITS OF SENIOR OFFICERS' TRAVEL PLANS

ΤΟ MATCH

WITH INVITATIONS THESE AND ENDEAVOURED OPPORTUNITIES IDENTIFIED BY THE OVERSEAS OFFICES.

VARIOUS PRIVATE

"MY OFFICE ALSO LIASES CLOSELY WITH THE OMELCO SECRETARIAT, THE

ASSOCIATION AND THE TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, THE TOURIST

THAT WHEREVER

PROMINENT POSSIBLE, CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE SO

HE ADDED. SECTOR PERSONALITIES CAN BE FIELDED TO SPEAK ABROAD,

SIR DAVID SAID THE NEED FOR A SPEAKER COULD NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

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COME ABOUT IN A

THE

"OUR OVERSEAS OFFICES CULTIVATE THE MORE INFLUENTIAL PLATFORMS. SOMETIMES ORGANISATIONS COME TO THEM, OR TO THEIR COUNTERPARTS AT HKTDC AND HETA.

"NOT

INFREQUENTLY

OR

THE CHAMBERS

THEY

OF

OFFICE,

MY APPROACH

DIRECT, COMMERCE

OMELCO'S EITHER FOR A SECRETARIAT PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL TO ADDRESS THEM, OR FOR A PARTICULAR EXPERTISE," THE SPEAKER HE SAID, ADDING THAT IT WAS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO FIELD OF THEIR CHOICE, BUT THE BEST WAS DONE TO PLEASE.

OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS

MORE

PEOPLE

THE GOVERNMENT

TO HELP

HAD MADE A PROMOTING IN

HONG

SPECIAL KONG

EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE OVERSEAS, SIR DAVID SAID, AND WITH SOME SUCCESS.

"OVER THE

PERIOD

YEARS," HE SAID.

ROUGHLY

DOUBLING

THE NUMBER OF PREVIOUS

AS REGARDS THE STATUS OF SPEAKERS, SIR DAVID SAID LARGELY ON THE OCCASION.

IT DEPENDED

"OFFICIALS SPEAKING AT MEETINGS OF INTERNATIONAL BODIES

IN AN OFFICIAL CAPACITY.

DO 80

/"OFTEN,

NON-OFFICIALS

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