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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1991

NEW AIRPORT A KEY TO FUTURE PROSPERITY

AND RELIABLE THE TIMELY PROVISION OF SOPHISTICATED, EFFICIENT IS INFRASTRUCTURE

THE KEY TO AND COMMUNICATIONS TRANSPORTATION

CENTRE IN MAINTAINING HONG KONG'S POSITION AS A PRE-EMINENT BUSINESS

TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID THE ASIA PACIFIC

THE DEPUTY REGION, FORD,

SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

SPEAKING AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

PROJECTS, SIR DAVID SAID AS KAI TAK THE NEW AIRPORT AND RELATED

KONG COULD NOT AIRPORT WAS RAPIDLY APPROACHING CAPACITY LIMITS HONG

ITS FUTURE ECONOMIC A NEW AIRPORT

ENSURE AFFORD NOT TO HAVE PROSPERITY.

ON

то

HE

SAID

THE SIGNING

HAD

OF THE

PROVIDED REPLACEMENT

MEMORANDUM OF

UNDERSTANDING THE CERTAINTY. NEEDED

AT AIRPORT

LAP

CHEK

TO КОК

WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT GET ON WITH CONSTRUCTING THE AND RELATED PROJECTS.

IT ALSO PROVIDED A PRACTICAL

DEVELOPMENT TO

THE

ISSUES RELATED DISCUSSED BY PARTIES CONCERNED.

FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH VARIOUS

OF THE

NEW

AIRPORT

COULD BE

PO-YAN, HAS A

THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE, CHAIRED BY MR WONG MEMBERSHIP OF 49 COMING FROM A WIDE CROSS-SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY.

ESTABLISHMENT SIR DAVID SAID

MARKED AN IMPORTANT AIRPORT AND RELATED PROJECTS,

MILESTONE

IN

OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

IN INVOLVING

THE

COMMUNITY

THE

THEIR EXPERT

I KNOW

THAT

"GIVEN THE DIVERSIFIED BACKGROUND OF MEMBERS AND THE PROJECTS, KNOWLEDGE IN VARIOUS FIELDS RELATED TO WE WILL RECEIVE VALUABLE ADVICE FROM THE COMMITTEE IN DUE COURSE.

"I CAN

ASSURE YOU

SERIOUSLY AND CAREFULLY CONSIDERED,

THE SIR DAVID SAID

THAT

YOUR HE SAID.

VIEWS

CONSULTATIVE

COMMITTEE

WILL

BE

VERY

WOULD PROVIDE A OF THE VALUABLE FORUM FOR COLLECTING VIEWS FROM A WIDE CROSS-SECTION

AND FOR

THE THE GOVERNMENT TO EXPLAIN COMMUNITY ON THE PROJECTS

PROJECTS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

"BUILDING THE

NEW AIRPORT,

IMMENSE

THE AND

OF

ROAD AND RAIL LINKS EVER UNDERTAKEN IN HONG BOTH FROM EFFORT

ASSOCIATED WITH IT, IS THE LARGEST PROJECT

REQUIRE

AN

AMOUNT KONG AND IT WILL THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS TO SEE IT THROUGH.

"WE CERTAINLY NEED THE SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC IN THIS AMBITIOUS PROJECT DONE.

"TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL, THE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC INFORMED

EFFORT TO FULLY

**

KEEP THE

THE PROJECTS, SIR DAVID SAID.

INTENDS

OF

THE

ORDER ΤΟ GET

то MAKE EVERY DEVELOPMENT OF

/AS THE