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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1992

ELSE

IDEAS" ANYONE

IDEAS THAT ARE

"ANY MR PATTEN SAID HE LOOKED FORWARD TO

MUST RE MAY HAVE FOR THE 1995 ELECTIONS, "BUT THEY OPEN, FAIR AND THOUGHT TO BE SO BY THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG."

SUCCESSFUL, WHICH

HE SAID HONG KONG'S VOICE HAD BEEN HEARD IN CANADA. "I HOPE

THE THROUGHOUT

WORLD THAT EVERYONE THROUGHOUT OUR REGION

WILL

AHEAD

THE VOICE OF A HEAR THE VOICE OF HONG KONG IN THE YEARS COMMUNITY WHICH IS

WHICH IS

AND

[S

SELF-CONFIDENT,

TOLERANT AND WHICH IS FREE.

THE HONG

ALSO SPEAKING AT THE GALA DINNER, THE HION KIM CAMPBELL,

OF

SAID MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL

CANADA, KONG GOVERNOR'S WORK HAS ENSURED THAT "HONG KONG WILL CONTINUE TESTIMONY TO WHAT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE WITH DETERMINATION, AND INVENTIVENESS.

"

"

TO BE HARDWORK

"THIS WILL BE ADMIRED AND SUPPORTED BY CANADA, SHE SAID.

TONIGHT'S GALA DINNER WAS CHAIRED BY STANLEY KWOK. HEAD TABLE GUESTS INCLUDED THE HON DAVID LAM, LT. GOVERNOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA; PREMIER MIKE HARCOURT; GORDON CAMPBELL, MAYOR OF VANCOUVER; JAMES

FOR SECRETARY

RECREATION AND CULTURE; AND MAURICE COPI THORNE, CHAIRMAN OF THE VANCOUVER FESTIVAL HONG KONG ORGANISING COMMITTEE.

50,

TRANSCRIPT OF REMARKS BY THE GOVERNOR TO THE MEDIA AFTER THE VANCOUVER FESTIVAL HONG KONG GALA DINNER,

WEDNESDAY (VANCOUVER TIME)

DO.

HONG KONG WANT IS A RATIONAL "I THINK THAT WHAT PEOPLE IN

LIMIT ΤΟ DISCUSSION RATHER THAN EMPTY THREATS AND I THINK THERE IS A

WE ALL KNOW THAT THE RE-WRITING WHICH THE NONA IN HONG KONG CAN

THE ABOUT THE BASIC

TALK THE

TO THE BEING ACCOUNTABLE KONG

AND THE BASIC

DECLARATION JOINT

AUTHORITIES

AND IN

HONG

LAW

EXECUTIVE LEGISLATURE. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION LAW ARE ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

"WE KNOW THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO AGREE TO THE

THAT UNDERSTAND

SENIOR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 1995 ELECTIONS. 1

1995 ELECTIONS, THAT OFFICIALS IN PEKING ACCEPT MY CRITERIA FOR THE

BE THEY SHOULD BE OPEN, THAT THEY SHOULD BE FAIR AND THAT THEY SHOULD

AND PART OF THAT ACCEPTABILITY ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

LAW. ITS IS PERFECTLY CLEAR FROM THE JOINT DECLARATION AND THE BASIC

RATHER THAN ACCEPTABILITY TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SO I THINK THAT CRITICISING, PEOPLE SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

AND HAD A SERIOUS

QUITE UNDERSTANDABLY

THE NOISE

BEHAVED RESPONSIBLY AND CONTINUE TO DO SO.'

WHATEVER

HAS

PASSIONATE

OFF STAGE,

DEBATE.

THEY

THEY

WILL

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