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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1992

CALL FOR EARLY CONCLUSION OF URUGUAY ROUND

TO AND

HONG KONG IS AMONG THE 29 CONTRACTING PARTIES то THE GATT

THEM URGING WHICH HAVE JUST ISSUED A MESSAGE TO THE G7 COUNTRIES, INTERVENE NOW SO AS TO

URUGUAY ROUND TO AN EARLY SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION.

BRING THE

"WE ARE PLEASED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS INITIATIVE. HONG KONG HAS BEEN PLAYING AN ACTIVE PART IN URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS AND BALANCED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO WHAT IT CAN TO PROMOTE AN EARLY OUTCOME, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, MR HAMISH MACLEOD, (TUESDAY).

"

SAID

TODAY

"A SUCCESSFUL URUGUAY ROUND WILL BOOST THE WORLD ECONOMY AND

THE MULTILATERAL TRADING STRENGTHEN

SYSTEM. BOTH ARE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO HONG KONG'S CONTINUED GROWTH,"

PERSUADE THE KEY

PARTICIPANTS

TO IMPASSE

WILL "I HOPE THE MESSAGE EXERCISE THE NECESSARY POLITICAL WILL TO OVERCOME THE PRESENT IN THE NEGOTIATIONS.

ΤΟ "THIS WILL THEN ENABLE THE MULTILATERAL PROCESS

END OF GENEVA FOR A CONCLUSION OF THE ROUND BY THE

THIS

ADDED.

RESUME IN YEAR, HE

11

LORD WILSON HERITAGE TRUST GETS CASH BOOST

MORE THAN 60 DONORS WHO CONTRIBUTED $43 MILLION TO THE LORD WILSON HERITAGE TRUST WERE TONIGHT (TUESDAY) PRESENTED WITH CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION AT A DINNER RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, AND THE BARONESS DUNN,

SO FAR THE TRUST HAS RECEIVED A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $26 MILLION, WITH A FURTHER $17 MILLION BEING PLEDGED, OF WHICH $15 MILLION IS FROM THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

SPEAKING AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY, SIR DAVID SAID THE TRUST WOULD COMMEMORATE THE TENURE OF LORD WILSON AS GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG AND PROVIDED A MEANS FOR THE COMMUNITY ΤΟ PARTICIPATE IN THE PRESERVATION OF HONG KONG'S HERITAGE.

HE SAID THE TRUST WOULD PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF HONG KONG'S HERITAGE.

IN

ADVISORY PROFESSIONAL HERITAGE

MUCH HAD BEEN DONE BY THE GOVERNMENT, THE ANTIQUITIES BOARD,

THE UNIVERSITIES, MANY DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES SUCH AS THE HONG KONG ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION, SIR DAVID SAID.

то

INCREASE

HOWEVER, HE STRESSED THAT THERE WAS A NEED COMMUNITY AWARENESS OF THE CAUSE OF PRESERVING HONG KONG'S HERITAGE.

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