XN000022-1991-07-03 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1991

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GOVT TO RELEASE FULL DETAILS ON AIRPORT PROJECT IF UNDERSTANDING IS REACHED WITH CHINA

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(WEDNESDAY)

COULD THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, TODAY

TELL THE REITERATED THAT IF AN UNDERSTANDING ON THE AIRPORT PROJECT

IT REACHED WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD

WHAT EXACTLY AND COUNCIL

THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE CONTAINS.

WHEN

THE CHIEF SECRETARY WAS SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL HON JIMMY WOUND Up THE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE MOVED

HB MCGREGOR.

BY THE

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SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT MR MCGREGOR'S MOTION REFERRED TO DEVELOPMENT LATEST PROPOSALS BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ON THE SITING, AND FINANCING OF A NEW AIRPORT FOR HONG KONG.

THE PROPOSAL WHICH HAD BEEN UNDER DISCUSSION WITH THE CHINESE SIDE, SIR DAVID, SAID, WAS THE PADS PROJECT, THE DETAILS OF WHICH WERE well known TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

"BOTH SIDES AGREE THAT HONG KONG NEEDS A NEW, COST-EFFECTIVĚ AIRPORT AND EFFORTS ARE CONTINUING TO TRY TO ACHIEVE THIS," HE SAID.

CHIEF SECRETARY

BOTH

SIDES HAD

THE GOVERNMENTS, CONFIDENTIAL.

SAID AS WITH

THE AGREED

MOST Discussions BETWEEN BB KEPT SHOULD DETAILS

STAGE, THE BACH "THIS IS FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT, IF AT

WERE TO BR THE TWO SIDES OUTSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENCES STILL

MAKE THE PROSPECT OF REACHING OBVIOUSLY PUBLICISED, IT WOULD SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT THAT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT," HE EXPLAINED.

THE

WOULD

A

VIEWS

MAKE SİR DAVID SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS MINDFUL OF MEMBkks' views ON MATTER AND HE REASSURED MEMBERS THAT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC THE FULL CONTENTS OF ANY AGREEMENT REACHED WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ON THE AIRPORT PROJECT.

DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY HEALTH REQUIRES INVOLVEMENT OF EVERYONE

WONG,

THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON ELIZABETH TODAY (WEDNESDAY) REITERATED THAT IN ACHIEVING THE GOAL OF "HEALTH FOR ALL BY THE YEAR 2000", INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF NRBDBD.

EVERYONE IS

CARE IN THE PARTY'S

WINDING UP THE MOTION DEBATE ON PRIMARY HEALTH LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MRS WONG NOTED THAT AMONGST THE WORKING

HAD AROUSED MOST CONCERN AND RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH

ABOUT FEES AND CHARGES.

CONTROVERSY WAS

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