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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1994

QUESTION:

WHAT KIND OF EXPECTATIONS ARE YOU WAITING TO SEE, WHAT KIND HIS OF MESSAGE ARE YOU HOPING THAT DIRECTOR LỤ WILL GIVE HONG KONG IN SPEECH?

I

WEEK AND I

SUCCESSFUL

TO LIVE UP то THE GOVERNOR:

HOPE HE WILL BE ABLE VERY MUCH

I HAVE BEEN EXPECTATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN AROUSED ABOUT THE SPEECH. READING LEADING ARTICLES AND OTHER PIECES IN YOUR NEWSPAPERS ALL SAYING THE SORT THE THINGS THAT YOU HOPE DIRECTOR LU WILL SAY HOPE THAT HE WILL HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR HONG KONG. I HOPE MORE GENERALLY IMPLEMENTATION HE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERLINE CHINA'S COMMITMENT TO THE OF THE JOINT DECLARATION. I HOPE HE WILL BE ABLE TO SHOW THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THAT HAS MADE HONG KONG SO

I HOPE THAT A COMBINATION OF MARKET ECONOMICS AND THE RULE OF LAW. HE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERLINE HONG KONG'S CONTINUING SPECIAL NATURE AND CONTINUING IMPORTANCE. I HOPE ALSO THAT HE WILL BE ABLE TO THAT IN THE FUTURE HONG KONG WILL ENJOY A HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY

ВЕ WILL

AN I AM SURE THAT IT HAS

PROMISED. BEEN INTERESTING SPEECH. IT'S A SPEECH WHICH EVERYBODY IN HONG

SURE A VERY AND HE WILL HAVE I AM BEEN

FOR WAITING AUDIENCE FOR IT.

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IT

UNDERLINE

AS

EXTREMELY KONG HAS

ENTHUSIASTIC

QUESTION:

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN

?

WITH

ROAR HAVING LUNCH WITH EMERGE HOPE I

GOVERNOR: WELL, SINCE I THINK FEBRUARY I HAVE HAD AN ENGAGEMENT THE HONG KONG LIONS, THE CLUB THAT IS, RATHER THAN THE ONES THAT AND I AM GOING TO GO AND HAVE LUNCH WITH THEM NOW. LIONS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I'VE OFTEN DONE AND UNSCATHED.

I

QUESTION: ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE SIMILAR SPEECH ON SIMILAR ITEM IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

GROUP,

GOVERNOR: I MAKE LOTS OF SPEECHES ON THAT ISSUE. I MADE ONE NOT VERY LONG AGO, AT THE UNIVERSITY ON HOW I THOUGHT WE MANAGED TO IMPLEMENT THE JOINT DECLARATION. I POINTED OUT ALL THE WORK WHICH STILL HAS TO BE DONE, ALL THE WORK THAT HAS TO BE DONE IN THE JOINT LIAISON

ADAPTATION OF THE WORK THAT HAS TO BE DONE ON THE LOCALISATION AND

TERMINAL, ON LAWS AND THE WORK THAT HAS TO BE DONE ON THE CONTAINER

ARE AND THOSE

ISSUES ON THE

AND ALL THOSE OTHER MATTERS. AIRPORT

LU PING EITHER THIS WE'LL BE HEARING FROM DIRECTOR WHICH I HOPE

BE AFTERNOON OR IN HIS SUBSEQUENT VISITS, WHICH I REPEAT WE HOPE WILL MANY AND CHEERFUL. THANK YOU.

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