XN000022-1991-06-13 — Page 2

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1991

1.

MUTUAL TRUST NEEDED TO RESOLVE ISSUES: GOVERNOR

THE

THAT

A

GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY) GREAT DEAL OF MUTUAL TRUST IS NEEDED IF ANYTHING, LIKE THE NEW AIRPORT PROJECT, IS TO BE RESOLVED.

AND THE

CHINESE

то

SIR DAVID SAID EFFORTS WERE NEEDED BY US ELIMINATE MISTRUST THAT HAD GROWN UP OVER THE YEARS.

BUT

FOR

HE

NO'T IMPORTANT

JUST POR THE AIRPORT,

YEARS, ELSE WE'VE GOT TO DEAL WITH OVER THE NEXT SIX

"THAT IS

EVERYTHING SAID.

CENTRAL

To SPEAKING

REPORTERS AFTER A VISIT TO

AND WESTERN DISTRICT, SIR DAVID: "ON THE AIRPORT ITSELF, I DON'T KNOW WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO RESOLVE THOSE ISSUES. I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM RESOLVED AS MAKE ANY SOON AS POSSIBLE, BUT AT THE MOMENT, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO ACCURATE PREDICTION.

"

COULD OTHER.'

THE GOVERNOR SAID HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS CONCEIVABLE THAT GET TO A SITUATION WHERE BOTH SIDES DON'T WANT TO TALK TO

"WE EACH

YOU

ΤΟ THE

**THERE

BUT IS A GREAT WILLINGNESS ON BOTH SIDES TO TALK. NEED ΤΟ DO MORE THAN TO TALK, YOU NEED TO PRODUCE SOLUTIONS VARIOUS ISSUES WHICH WE NEED TO DISCUSS," HE SAID.

"80,

ΤΟ

ΤΟ REACH

IT NEEDS WILLINGNESS TO TALK; IT NEEDS A WILLINGNESS HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE OTHER SIDE; IT NEEDS A WILLINGNESS PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

PRACTICAL

"AND JUST AT THE MOMENT WE ARE MOVING MORE SLOWLY ON SOLUTIONS TO PRACTICAL PROBLEMS THAN 1 WOULD LIKE TO SEE. I WOULD LIKE

ISSUES, TO SEE US MOVING FASTER TO DEAL WITH THOSE

"WHAT

DO

M

SIR DAVID SAID.

ΤΟ

REACH AN TS AN AGREEMENT AS

THE WE ARE TRYING TO

AT

MOMENT THE AIRPORT PROJECT AND TO TRY TO GET AGREEMENT ON SOON AS WE CAN. IF WE CANNOT GET AN AGREEMENT, THEN IT HAS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE SORT OF WORKS THAT WE WANT TO CARRY OUT; THINGS WHICH WE'RE TRYING TO DO AS SOON AS WE CAN," HE SAID.

COMMENTING ON RECENT VIOLENT CRIME, THE

CERTAIN CERTAIN

GOVERNOR SAID: "WE'VE NATURALLY HAVE

IS VERY

HAD VERY BAD CASES OF VIOLENT CRIME RECENTLY WHICH, AROUSED A GREAT DEAL OF CONCERN IN THE COMMUNITY AND THAT UNDERSTANDABLE, EVEN THOUGH IN GENERAL, THIS COMMUNITY IS STILL A VERY PEACEFUL COMMUNITY COMPARED WITH OTHER RIG CITIES IN THE WORLD.

TH

SHOULD TRY THAT NERDS FROM

ΤΟ

NOT THE

| SUGGEST,

WE IS THAT "WHAT IS IMPORTANT NOW,

AND THOSE WHO MAKE SURE

COMMIT CRIMES ARE CAUGHT,

IT NEEDS FORCE,

CO-OPERATION ONLY EFFORTS BY THE POLICE

HE SAID. PUBLIC AS WELL, GIVING SUPPORT TO THE POLICE,

THE

GOVERNOR SAID HONG

KONG

DID

HAVE

VERY

TOUGH LAWS ON

THE

WEAPONS, BUT THERE WAS THE PROBLEM OF WEAPONS BEING SMUGGLED INTO TERRITORY FROM CHINA.

/"THERE IS