XN000022-1991-04-09 — Page 7

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1991

MR HURD: NO.

AND

WELL, - I

I THINK YOU MUST ASK CAN'T IMMEDIATELY LAY

THEM

MY HAND

THAT, BUT I THE

ON

-

PUBLIC THIS IS A NO INTENTION OF

NOTICE

RECALL STATEMENTS OF THE FOREIGN MINISTER WHICH WERE PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT

HERE WE ARE

JUST BEFORE I SAW HIM IN PEKING

HAD TOLD JOURNALISTS THAT CHINA

DAY-TO-DAY ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG AND HE THEN

NO CONDOMINIUM, NO CONTROL, NO VETO.

STATEMENT

―

HE

INTERFERRING IN THE UTTERED THREE NO'S:

FANNY WONG

{SCMP):

BUT WOULD THEY SEE THAT

AS

DAY-TO-DAY OF THE

MATTERS OF HONG KONG BUILDING THE AIRPORT, THE PROCEEDING CONSTRUCTION OF THE AIRPORT PROJECT?

HAVEN'T MIGHT

MR

AS I

WE

I

SAY, WELL I THINK YOU MUST ASK THEM THAT. HURD:

AGREEMENT IF WE HAD REACHED FULL REACHED FULL AGREEMENT. TAKE

AS WE ARE STILL IT ON MYSELF TO INTERPRET THEIR VIEWS. TALKING TO THEM, AND AS YOUR QUESTION BEARS ON SOME OF THE POINTS AT ISSUE, I THINK MY BEST THING IS TO REFER YOU BACK TO WHAT THE FOREIGN

NO CONDOMINIUM, MINISTER SAID AND THE THREE NO'S WHICH HE STATED: CONTROL, NO VETO.

NO

ΤΟ

DANIELA DEANE (WASHINGTON POST): YOU SAY THAT HONG KONG HAS RETAIN THE AUTHORITY AND CAPABILITY TO MAKE DECISIONS BUT DOESN'T THIS DECISIONS RIGHT NOW SHOW THAT IT NO LONGER HAS THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE

CHINA SAYING, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT GO AHEAD WITH THIS AIRPORT WITHOUT YES?

STATEMENT,

HONG

ABOUT

INVESTING

MR

POLITICAL HURD: THAT, AS I HAVE SAID, IS NOT A IT'S NOT A POLICY STATEMENT OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT OR OF THE KONG GOVERNMENT, IT IS A STATEMENT OF ECONOMIC FACT THAT IF YOU HAVE A MAJOR PROJECT WHICH ON ANY FIGURES REQUIRES ABOUT ONE-QUARTER, 25 PERCENT, PRIVATE INVESTMENT; AND IF YOU WERE AN INVESTOR

TO YOUR OWN RESOURCES OR THOSE OF THE WASHINGTON POST YOU WOULD WANT

AND YOU FIND OUT A BIT MORE OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AFTER 1997

AFTER THAT WOULD WANT TO FIND OUT THE VIEWS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER TIME. AND SO THAT IS WHAT I MEAN BY A STATEMENT OF ECONOMIC FACT.

DANIELA DEANE (WASHINGTON POST): EXCUSE ME, ONE THAT. THEY ALREADY KNOW ALL THE DETAILS OF THIS SPENDING STILL ARE NOT SAYING, YES, SO NOTHING CAN HAPPEN UNTIL THEY SAY,

HAS RETAINED CAN YOU SAY THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SO HOW AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS?

FOLLOW-UP

AND

ON THEY YES.

THE

MR HURD: I'M NOT THINGS. YOU'RE MIXING-UP A POLITICAL QUESTION WHICH IS THE MEANING OF ECONOMIC THE JOINT DECLARATION, THE MEANING OF CONSULTATION, WITH AN

POLITICIANS AND FACT. ECONOMIC FACTS TEND TO STRADDLE DATES SET BY THAT IS SO IN THIS CASE, AND I DON'T SEE ANY POINT IN TRYING TO THE POINT. I MEAN IT IS REALLY MUCH BETTER THAT THESE DEALT WITH IN TERMS OF REALITY.

YOU'RE MIXING-UP, IF I MAY

SAY

So,

TWO

FUDGE

MATTERS

ARE

/PHILIP BOWRING