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تنا

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1991

HE SAID THE

CLOSE CONTACT

THE

WITH GOVERNMENT. KEEPS IN

KONG HONG TEAM

**WE

SIGNIFICANT IN NEGOTIATING

PEKING:

HAVE REPRESENTATION ON THAT TEAM, SO WE WISH TO KNOW WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON HERE DURING THE COURSE OF THE DAY AND TO PROVIDE OUR OWN ADVICE FROM TO THE NEGOTIATING TEAM FOR THE NEXT DAY'S DISCUSSIONS."

BE PUT

ASKED IF TENDERS FOR THE LANTAU FIXED CROSSING WOULD

DAVID SAID, WHILE BACK EVEN IF NO AGREEMENT HAD BEEN REACHED, SIR EMPHASISING THAT THE NEGOTIATING TEAM WAS TRYING TO REACH AN AGREEMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: "IF WE CAN'T REACH AN AGREEMENT THEN SOME VARIOUS, OBVIOUS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS TO THAT.

·

THERE IS

BEST FOR AIRPORT TALKS TO CONTINUE: C8

THAT

REACH AN

THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY) IT WAS BEST THAT THE TALKS ON THE NEW AIRPORT CONTINUED, THAT EVERYONE CONTINUED TO

THE MAKE

BEST EFFORT POSSIBLE AGREEMENT.

TO

:

TRY TO

MEMBERS OF THE IMMIGRATION

HE WAS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER VISITING ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT (THE VOLUNTEERS) ON ANTI-ILLEGAL DUTIES AT THE BORDER.

PEKING, SIR

TALKS IN 'TO REACH A SIDE. IT'S VERY SOLUTIONS TO

AIRPORT ASKED ΤΟ COMMENT ON THE SITUATION OF THE

DAVID SAID: 'WE ARE STILL TRYING VERY HARD SOLUTION.

CHINESE WE ARF WORKING HARD WITH THE IMPORTANT THAT WE DO CONTINUE TO TRY AND FIND PRACTICAL WHAT AFTERALL 18 A PRACTICAL PROBLEM.

"FOR HONG KONG NEEDS AN AIRPORT, EVERYONE ACCEPTS THAT. WE WANT TO ΒΟΤΗ SIDES. TO FIND A PRACTICAL WAY FORWARD WHICH IS AGREEABLE THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TRYING HARD TO DO.

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0

CS VISITS BORDER AREA

TODAY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD,

SOME OF THE

(TUESDAY)

VISITED IMMIGRATION

REGIMENT

(THE

THE BORDER AREA WHERE HE SAW

ANTI-ILLEGAL OPERATIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE ROYAL HONG KONG VOLUNTEERS).

SOME 700 VOLUNTEERS ARE ON BORDER PATROL WHICH BEGAN ON MAY

AND WILL END THIS SUNDAY (MAY 26).

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REGIMENT'S HONONARY COLONEL, WAS LT. COL.

ΤΟ COOMBE,

VARIOUS

SIR DAVID, WHO IS THE ESCORTED BY COMMANDING OFFICER, BORDER POSTS ALONG THE FRONTIER BORDER AREA.

NICK

/THEY VISITED