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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1992

DISCUSSION IN

PUT ARE

FORWARD

IF IT'S RIGHT TO TALK OPENLY ABOUT HOW ΤΟ

AN BUILD AIRPORT, FOR HEAVENS SAKE, WHY IS IT WRONG TO TALK OPENLY ABOUT HOW TO SECURE PEOPLE'S FREEDOMS AND WAY OF LIFE AND PROSPERITY IN HONG KONG? WHAT I THINK HAS EVERYTHING TO BE SAID FOR IT,

A IS

IF WHICH,

THERE ARE DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW THEY

HOW TO SECURE THAT WAY OF LIFE. INTELLIGENTLY ABOUT THINK THERE'S MUCH OF A CASE FOR IS ONE SET OF PEOPLE PUTTING IDEAS AND ANOTHER SET OF PEOPLE EITHER JUST RUBBISHING THEM OR INTIMIDATORY NOISES, I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE BEST WAY OF CARRYING THE

SO THE ANSWER TO AND THE DISCUSSION FORWARD.

DON'T

Ι WHAT

FORWARD MAKING

—

DEBATE 18

IF

THERE I'VE GOT IT THE RIGHT WAY ROUND SECRET DEALS ON THE FUTURE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG.

J

NO,

YOUR WON'T

QUESTION

BE

ANY

ROAD-BLOCK

(SCM POST): GOVERNOR, NOW YOU'VE APPARENTLY REACHED THIS

US IN YOUR NEGOTIATIONS FOR POLITICAL REFORM WITH CHINA, CAN YOU TELL

TO ARE YOU GOING

INVITE CHINESE WHAT YOU'RE NEXT GOING TO DO? OFFICIALS TO HONG KONG OR WILL YOU SEEK AN INVITATION TO GO TO BEIJING TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS?

THE

NEXT

GOVERNOR:

WHEN I WAS IN PEKING IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT STEP FORWARD COULD BE DISCUSSIONS IN THE

IF JOINT LIAISON GROUP, AND

THINK THAT IS THE WAY CHINA WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THINGS FORWARD, THEN I

80 I HOPE IT WOULD BE A VERY SENSIBLE WAY TO CONTINUE THE DEBATE.

AT THAT WE'LL HAVE THAT SORT OF MEETING, OTHERWISE WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK OTHER WAYS OF COMMUNICATING AND DISCUSSING THINGS. IT DOES MAKE MORE SENSE

FORWARD TO HAVE A DISCUSSION. IT DOES MAKE MORE SENSE TO PUT PROPOSALS AND DEBATE THEM WITH ONE ANOTHER, RATHER THAN JUST HAVE SIDE PUTTING FORWARD PROPOSALS AND THE OTHER SIDE EITHER SAYING, OR EVEN DECLINING TO SAY, NO.

ONE

NO,

HK, NETHERLANDS SIGN FUGITIVE OFFENDERS AGREEMENT

KONG

WILL AND THE

AN AGREEMENT ON THE SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE OFFENDERS WHICH REMAIN IN FORCE AFTER 1997 WAS SIGNED BETWEEN HONG NETHERLANDS TODAY (MONDAY).

AGREEMENT CO-OPERATION.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT HONG KONG HAS SIGNED AN WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY IN THIS IMPORTANT AREA OF CRIMINAL

SURRENDER

OF

THE AGREEMENT SETS OUT THE CONDITIONS FOR THE FUGITIVE OFFENDERS BETWEEN THE TWO PLACES BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER 1997.

THE

SIGNING THE AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WAS SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY. THE CONSUL-GENERAL OF NETHERLANDS, MR HENDRIK J VAN PES, SIGNED THE AGREEMENT ON OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NETHERLANDS.

BEHALF

/MR ASPREY