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I'M STILL HAVING SOME

INNER SIGNIFICANCE.

THERE

WOULD

—

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1993

THE

THE

DIFFICULTY IN FOLLOWING GOVERNOR: HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN'S QUESTION AND PERHAPS THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S

LET ME END OF WHAT HAS BEEN A WEEK THAT'S LASTED ABOUT FOURTEEN DAYS!

SPIRIT OF THE HONOURABLE SAY, AND I HOPE THAT I'M ANSWERING THE

IF I'VE FAILED TO IDENTIFY SOME OF ITS' GENTLEMAN'S QUESTION, EVEN

OFFICIALS, IF WE WERE TO HAVE TALKS WITH CHINESE

THAN A TALKS 1N OTHER BE

POINT IN HAVING THOSE NO

AGAIN MADE THAT CLEAR AGAIN, CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT THAT TRUE, I'VE

VERY DIFFICULT AND AGAIN. THE TRUTH IS THAT I THINK TALKS WOULD BE

HOPEFUL BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ONE WOULDN'T ENTER INTO THEM IN AS

THAT I WAS ONE OF THE THINGS A SPIRIT AS POSSIBLE. AND POSITIVE HOPING WE WOULD DISCOVER EARLY IN ANY TALKS WAS WHAT COUNTER-PROPOSALS CHINESE OFFICIALS HAD TO OFFER IN COMPARISON TO THOSE THAT WE'VE HAD THOSE PUT ON THE TABLE SINCE LAST OCTOBER, ANY COUNTER-PROPOSALS TO TOGETHER BY THE COMMUNITY IN THAT VAST COMPENDIUM THAT WE'VE ASSEMBLED OF WORDS FROM CHINESE THERE HAVE BEEN MILLIONS OF ALTERNATIVES.

AND NEWSPAPERS WHICH CUSTOMARILY IN A SPIRIT OF OFFICIALS FREE-SPEECH SUPPORT THE POSITION OF CHINESE OFFICIALS WORDS OF CRITICISM OF THE PROPOSALS WHICH THE GOVERNMENT FORWARD, CRITICISM OF THE PROPOSALS WHICH HONOURABLE MEMBERS HAVE FORWARD, CRITICISM OF PROPOSALS WHICH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HAVE PUT FORWARD. THERE HAVEN'T BEEN TEN WORDS WHICH DESCRIBED A COUNTER-SET OF CHINESE PROPOSALS,

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BELIEF OF MILLIONS

OF

PUT

PUT

HAVE

COMMUNITY HAVE ACTUALLY

SO, IF THERE ARE TALKS, PROPOSALS AND I

PRODUCED

I WOULD HOPE THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO LOOK AT CHINESE REPEAT WE WOULD GO INTO TALKS WITH AN OPEN MIND AND IF TALKS BETTER PROPOSALS THAN THE ONES' WE'VE PUT ON THE TABLE, I WOULD HAVE ΤΟ SHARE THAT PERCEPTION WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND TRY TO PERSUADE THEM OF 1T.

I

THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. MR HA WING-HO (THROUGH INTERPRETER):

SINCE THE ELECTORAL BILL WILL BE WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE GOVERNOR THIS

TO LOBBY THE GAZETTED

AND SO WILL THE UK CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON

FOR THEIR VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL, COMMUNTY TO LOBBY SUPPORT TO THESE PROPOSALS?

GOVERNOR:

DOING THAT, THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT HASN'T BEEN

KINGDOM GOVERNMENT NOR HAS THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND THE UNITED

WHAT WE DO PERCEIVE WON'T DO THAT, NOR WILL THE HONG KONG GOVRNMENT.

ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT IS THAT MANY COUNTRIES, NOT SURPRISINGLY

SUCCESSFUL HAPPENS IN HONG KONG AND HOPE THAT HONG KONG WILL. ENJOY AS

GOVERNMENTS WE FIND THAT MANY A FUTURE AS IT HAS HAD A RECENT PAST.

WHILE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IN OTHER COUNTRIES +

THE SOVEREIGN THE JOINT DECLARATION IS A MATTER FOR THE PRESENT AND

IMPLEMENTATION POWER, TAKE INEVITABLY AN INTEREST IN THAT SUCCESSFUL

WILLCH HAVE

PUT BEEN ARE AND

SURPRISED THAT THE MODEST PROPOSALS

SUCH ISSUE FORWARD BY THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT THE 1994/95 ELECTIONS HAVE DRAWN

THAT IS NOT INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE A REACTION FROM CHINA.

SENTOR MINISTER AND I'M SURE THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS DIDN'T THINK THAT LEE KUAN YEW'S WIRWS ON HONG KONG REPRESENTED INTERNATIONALISATION THE ISSUE. THAT JUST RELFECTS THE FACT THAT HONG KONG IS ONE OF

THE MOST IMPORTANT IS ONE OF CENTRES OF THE WORLD, INTERNATIONAL

I WILL COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD AND MANY PEOPLE 10OK AT WHAT HAPPENS IN HONG KONG AS A TOUCH-STONE FOR THEIR VIEWS ON MANY OTHER THINGS.

KONG CONTINUE AS PREVIOUS GOVERNORS HAVE DONE TO REPRESENT HONG

I WILL CONTINUE TO EXPLAIN WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

WON'T THAT COUNTRIES, OTHER IN AND HERE BOTH KONG INTERNATIONALESING HONG KONG, IT WILL BE DOING WHAT I'M OBLIGED TO GOVERNMENT WILL TODAY AND WHAT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE SAR OBLIGED TO DO AFTER 1997.

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/MR EDWARD