XN000022-1994-04-18 — Page 2

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1994

CALL TO REMOVE ANXIETIES OVER XI YANG CASE

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CHRISTOPHER

PATTEN,

TODAY

(MONDAY)

REMOVE THE ANXIETIES OF YANG CASE AND то SPELL OUT

ΤΟ JOURNALISTS

FOLLOW WHEN

CLEARLY COVERING

THE GOVERNOR, THE RT HON URGED CHINESE OFFICIALS TO MOVE RAPIDLY TO HONG KONG PEOPLE OVER THE XI THE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR EVENTS IN CHINA.

то SPEAKING

REPORTERS AFTER OPENING THE CONFERENCE ON FAMILY AND COMMUNITY CARE, MR PATTEN SAID:

INTERNATIONAL

MUCH "I HOPE THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS UNDERSTAND WHY THERE IS SO

NOT WORRY IN HONG KONG ABOUT THIS CASE, WHY THERE IS SO MUCH WORRY

THE SENTENCE JUST ABOUT THE WAY THE CASE HAS BEEN HANDLED BUT ABOUT WHICH HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN, WHICH SEEMS TO MOST PEOPLE IN HONG AND BEYOND AS WHOLLY DISPROPORTIONATE TO WHAT WE LEARN OF THE AGAINST THE JOURNALIST IN QUESTION.

KONG CHARGES

AT THE WEEKEND "I VERY MUCH HOPE AS THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID

OUT VERY CLEARLY WHAT THE THAT THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES WILL SPELL

ARE WHICH

NOT JOURNALISTS, RULES

LEAST AND REGULATIONS

THE TO FOLLOW WHEN THEY ARE JOURNALISTS OF HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS, HAVE COVERING EVENTS IN CHINA.

MY HEART THAT CHINESE PEOPLE'S

BECAUSE ANXIETIES

OFFICIALS THOSE

"I HOPE FROM THE BOTTOM OF WILL

RAPIDLY MOVE

TO REMOVE ANXIETIES ARE VERY, VERY REAL AND VERY, VERY PROFOUND."

POINT

WHICH

SAID THERE WAS ONE MR PATTEN

DISTINGUISHED YANG'S CASE FROM THAT ONE OR TWO OTHER JOURNALISTS IN THE PAST.

RESIDENT AND A LOCAL

WORKS FOR "XI YANG IS

A HONG NEWSPAPER BUT IS A CHINESE CITIZEN SO THERE IS A LIMIT TO WHAT WE

RULES AND REGULATIONS ABLE TO DO UNDER THE NORMAL INTERNATIONAL PURSUING HIS CASE, HE SAID.

"

XI

KONG ARE

IN

DO.

BUT, **THERE ARE LIMITS TO WHAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CAN

FROM OUR VERY NEVERTHELESS, THAT IN NO WAY, THAT IN NO WAY DETRACTS

IN SUBSTANTIAL CONCERN AND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORRY THAT EXISTS

THE COMMUNITY.

M

RESPONDING

QUESTION TO A

ABOUT THE

ALLEGED INDEPENDENT THE GOVERNOR SAID THE

COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION (ICAC) TARGET LIST, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN AND THERE WASN'T TODAY ANY POLITICISATION OF ICAC.

THE LAWS WITHIN IT CONTINUES TO OPERATE

ICAC "THE RULES WITHIN WHICH THE WHICH IT OPERATES ARE ABSOLUTELY PLAIN AND WITHIN THOSE LAWS," MR PATTEN SAID.

OPERATES,

ARE BEING EXAMINED AT REPORT LATER THIS

"THE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ICAC THE MOMENT BY A HIGH-POWERED COMMITTEE WHICH WILL YEAR.

/"EVERY ACTIVITY