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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1994
D-G OF TRADE SPEAKS ON "PARTNERSHIP IN GROWTH" IN NEW DELHI
MR TONY MILLER,
TODAY
TRADE, OF DIRECTOR-GENERAL THE (WEDNESDAY) ENCOURAGED FELLOW DELEGATES AT THE FIFTIETH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
DRIVEN SOLUTIONS IN {BSCAP}
DELHI TO LOOK INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT.
NEW
SPEAKING
DEVELOPMENT AS
CO-OPERATION",
FOR MARKET
TO
THEME:
"INFRASTRUCTURE
REGIONAL
ECONOMIC COMMITMENTS TO
то THE SESSION'S MAIN
GROWTH AND KEY TO ECONOMIC MR MILLER CITED HONG KONG'S INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AS THE KEY TO ITS SUCCESS.
KONG HONG A
DELEGATION ΤΟ THE MR MILLER IS LEADING ANNUAL PLENARY SESSION IN NEW DELHI BETWEEN APRIL 5 AND 13.
BECAP
IN
SAID MR
LONG TERM COMMITMENT "HONG KONG'S SUCCESS HAS BEEN BORN OF A ON THE PART OF BOTH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO INVESTING AND CONSTANTLY IMPROVING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, MILLER.
OUR
AN
FACTOR IMPORTANT
IN
JUNCTURE
HISTORY OUR IN OUR THE IT REMAINS
KRY TO ENSURING HEAVY INFRASTRUCTURE SO VITAL TO
"THIS PARTNERSHIP IN GROWTH HAS BEEN SUCCESS. AT THIS SIGNIFICANT COMMITMENT TO IT IS UNWAVERING. TIMELY PROVISION OF MUCH OF THE SUSTAINING OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THAT OF THE SURROUNDING REGION."
PATTERNS IN
RETROSPECT,
IF I DID NOT
"IT IS, OF COURSE, EASIER TO DISCERN NEVERTHELESS, I WOULD DO MY PREDECESSORS AN INJUSTICE RECOGNISE THIS PARTICULAR PATTERN. HONG KONG'S APPROACH WAS TO FOCUS WITHIN OUR MEANS. ON ESSENTIALS, TO BUILD FROM BASICS AND TO BUILD
EDUCATION. ELSEWHERE WR PROVIDED WE FOCUSED ON HOUSING, HEALTH AND
WE ONLY BASIC
INFRASTRUCTURE.
BALANCED OUR BUDGETS. LEFT THE REST TO MARKET FORCES AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR."
PHYSICAL
WE
MR
MILLER
DISMISSED
THE
POPULAR
"LAISSEZ-FAIRE"
CHARACTERISATION OF THE HONG KONG ECONOMY AS OVERLY SIMPLISTIC,
HAS
ECONOMY "THE GOVERNMENT'S SHUNNING OF INTERFERENCE IN THE
BY BALANCED BEEN
CLOSE INVOLVEMENT IN CREATING THE SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ESSENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS.
US "WE HAVE SOUGHT TO CAPITALISE ON THE ADVANTAGES CONFERRED ON
THESE ELEMENTS IN OUR BY GEOGRAPHY, AND PROGRESSIVELY TO DEVELOP SOCIETY AND OUR
TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING.
ECONOMY NECESSARY ΤΟ
LONG SUSTAIN
"AS A GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE NOT SOUGHT TO INFLUENCE OR
WHICH
INTERFERE
IN THE BUSINESS DECISIONS CHANGE AND GROWTH. HOWEVER, WE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GOVERNMENT A CRUCIAL ROLE TO PLAY IN STRATEGIC" INFRASTRUCTURE
UNDERPIN THE FORCES FOR ECONOMIC
WHICH IS
PLANNING PROVISION THE FOUNDATION FOR
ECONOMIC GROWTH, SAID MR MILLER.
OF
HAS THE
CONTINUING
/MR MILLER
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