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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1992

GOVERNOR PLEASED WITH LEGCO DISCUSSIONS

THE

GOVERNOR,

THE RT HON CHRISTOPHER PATTEN, PLEASED THAT THE PROPOSALS FOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS SO CONSTRUCTIVELY YESTERDAY BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

SAID HE WAS WERE DISCUSSED

IN

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER LAYING A WREATH AT THE CENOTAPH

MR VANCOUVER THIS MORNING (HK TIME),

PATTEN SAID KE THOUGHT THAT THE DEBATE WOULD CONTINUE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL LATER.

"BUT I REPEAT THAT IF OTHERS HAVE GOT POSITIVE

PROPOSALS WHICH THEY WANT TO PUT FORWARD AS AN DETAILED THEY SHOULD DO SO," HE SAID.

MR I THINK,

PROPOSALS, ALTERNATIVE

PATTEN SAID: IT GENERALLY

REACTION TO THE DEBATE, ASKED ABOUT CHINA'S "CHINA WILL NOTE THAT AMONG THE CRITERIA WHICH, ACCEPTED FOR ANY FUTURE PROPOSAL ARE THAT THEY SHOULD BE NOT ONLY FAIR

BUT AND OPEN

AND ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG

KONG,

MATTERS

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS ONE OF THE WAYS IN IN DISCOVERS WHETHER THINGS ARE ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG."

DEBATING WHICH ONE

COMMENTING ON HIS TRIP TO CANADA, MR PATTEN SAID IT WAS HONG KONG HE SHOULD GO TO THE FESTIVAL THE INTENTION THAT CANADA, ADDING THAT HE WOULD BE TAKING PART IN THE GALA DINNER MARKED THE END OF THE FESTIVAL.

ALWAYS

92

IN

WHICH

THAT

AND

WE

++

HE

"SO I'M REALLY HERE AS A GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP AND I KNOW BEING

CANADA, IN

I'M TALKING TO FRIENDS AND MEETING FRIENDS HOPE TO DO SO MANY TIMES DURING THE FIVE YEARS OF MY GOVERNORSHIP, ADDED.

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GOVERNOR ARRIVES VANCOUVER

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THE GOVERNOR, THE RT HON CHRISTOPHER PATTEN, ARRIVED

LEG OF HIS THIS (THURSDAY) MORNING (HK TIME) ON THE FIRST VISIT IN CANADA.

VANCOUVER FOUR-DAY

BY THE HON HE WAS MET AT THE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

CANADA; MR KIM CAMPBELL, MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF

OF BRITISH COLUMBIA; BERNIE SIMPSON, MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVF ASSEMBLY

MR MR JAMES SO, SECRETARY OF PECREATION AND CULTURE OF HONG KONG; AND

WHO CAME SPECIALLY FROM JOHN HIGGINBOTHAM, COMMISSIONER OF CANADA, HONG KONG A DAY AGO TO GREET THE GOVERNOR.

THAT AIRPORT

HE HOPED THIS MR PATTEN TOLD REPORTERS AT THE TRIP TO VANCOUVER, OTTAWA AND TORONTO WOULD HELP TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN THE LINKS BETWEEN CANADA AND HONG KONG, AND HE WAS LOOKING PART IN THE

VANCOUVER

GALA DINNER

CLOSING OF FESTIVAL HONG KONG 92.

THIS

EVENING

WHICH

то TAKING MARKS

THE

/WHEN HE