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MONDAY, MAY 2, 1994

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FOLLOWING

TRANSCRIPT OF GOVERNOR'S MEDIA SESSION

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GOVERNOR

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OF TRANSCRIPT CHRISTOPHER PATTEN'S MEDIA SESSION AFTER ATTENDING A LUNCHEON BY THE CANADIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TODAY (MONDAY):

SERVICE

TRADE TO MEET

QUESTION: SIR. MR LU PING IS GOING TO MEET THE CIVIL UNIONS. DO YOU THINK IT IS SUITABLE FOR THE CIVIL SERVANTS HIM?

GOVERNOR: YES.

KNOW

DECIDING YANG DID

QUESTION: MR PATTEN, HOW ARE THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG SUPPOSED TO IN WHO'S HANDS DO THEIR FUTURE LIE WHEN LU PING IS OUT THERE OUR FUTURE AND THERE ARE CERTAIN LIMITS IN, THINGS LIKE XI NOTHING ABOUT, OR VERY LITTLE?

HONG

WHAT

GOVERNOR: THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE SOVEREIGN POWER UNTIL THE 30TH JUNE

KONG THIS 1997

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THIS GOVERNMENT, AND THAT

WE'RE GOVERNING GOVERNMENT, WILL BE TAKING DECISIONS UNTIL THAT DATE.

AND SEEING IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, GETTING OUT

HAVE BEEN THEM AND MEETING THEM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THAT'S WHAT WE DOING, SHOWING THAT WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE, AND THAT'S

DO.

LU DIRECTOR I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO ENJOYABLE AND USEFUL WEEK IN HONG KONG. I HOPE THAT HE MEETS AS PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. I HOPE THAT HE HEARS AS MANY POINTS OF POSSIBLE, AND I HOPE THAT DURING THE COURSE OF THE WEEK, GOOD NEWS FOR US AS WELL. AND FINALLY, I HOPE THAT HE'LL MANY MORE TIMES BETWEEN NOW AND 30TH JUNE, 1997.

HAS

AN

MANY VIEW AS

HE'LL HAVE

COME

HERE

QUESTION: ARE YOU GOING TO TRY TO MEET HIM?

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VISIT TO

ALWAYS

BUSY

GOVERNOR: I'VE MADE IT ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT I WOULD BE DELIGHTED MEET HIM INDEED BEFORE ANYBODY KNEW HE WAS COMING FOR THIS HONG KONG. I'VE WRITTEN TO HIM AGAIN SUGGESTING A MEETING. I'M HAPPY TO MEET DIRECTOR WHENEVER HE CAN FIND TIME IN HIS CLEARLY SCHEDULE.

THE

SERVICE

UNIONS, IN

THE

THE

HONG MEMBERS.

KONG

BUT

THEY

PAST QUESTION:

CIVIL GOVERNMENT DID NOT ALLOW CIVIL SERVANTS TO CONTACT PWC NOW THE FIVE UNIONS WILL MEET LU PING ON THE COMING SATURDAY. DO AGAINST THE CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS?

IS

WE'VE ACTUALLY GOVERNOR: NO, IT'S NOT AGAINST ANY REGULATIONS. WHAT SAID

THAT

BETWEEN COMMUNICATION WE HAVE AGREED CHANNELS OF

THE JOINT OURSELVES SET UP, SOME OF THEM UNDER INTERNATIONAL TREATY,

ON. AND THAT LIAISON

CIVIL COMMITTEE AND SO AIRPORT GROUP, THE

AGREED SERVANTS HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF WORK TO DO TRYING TO MAKE THOSE

CONCENTRATE ON CONTACTS WORK SUCCESSFULLY. SO, WE'VE SAID WE SHOULD THOSE THINGS.

SERVICE UNIONS FUTURE

WHY CIVIL

REASON BUT THERE IS NO SHOULDN'T MEET DIRECTOR LU PING. HE'S AN IMPORTANT MAN IN THE OF THE TERRITORY, AND I HOPE THAT THEY WILL TELL HIM EXACTLY WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE.

/QUESTION: