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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1994

QUESTION:

PATTEN,

CAN

REPORT PRESS MR

YOU CONFIRM THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL HAS ALREADY RULED OUT THE SETTING UP OF RIGHTS COMMISSION?

DISCUSSED

THAT THE

A HUMAN

SAID THAT COMMISSION

COMMISSION,

TAKEN

GOVERNOR: NO, THERE WAS A PRESS REPORT THIS MORNING WHICH

HAD

A HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL THE EXECUTIVE YESTERDAY AND IT'S COMPLETELY UNTRUE. WHEN ENQUIRIES WERE MADE OF YESTERDAY ABOUT WHETHER EXCO HAD DISCUSSED A HUMAN RIGHTS WE TOLD THOSE MAKING THE ENQUIRIES THAT NO SUCH DISCUSSIONS HAD PLACE. THEREFORE, WE CAN'T BE BLAMED, IF DESPITE THOSE ASSURANCES, A REPORT WAS STILL WRITTEN. BUT, I REPEAT,

AT RIGHTS COMMISSION ABOUT A HUMAN WHATSOEVER DISCUSSION YESTERDAY THOUGH THERE WERE LOTS OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT OTHER MATTERS.

UNQUALIFIED THERE WAS NO

EXCO

QUESTION: MR PATTEN, DO YOU THINK MRS ANSON CHAN IS A QUALIFIED PERSON TO BE THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WHEN THE SAR IS ESTABLISHED?

QUESTION COMMUNITY'S CHAN HAS BEEN ONE OF THE

ACCEPT

CLEAR

IT'S

THAT

WROTE FOR

GOVERNOR: LET ME DEAL WITH, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT PROMPTS YOUR AND THEN SET OUT FOR YOU MY ADMIRATION AND, I THINK, THE ADMIRATION FOR

FOR THE EXCELLENT LEADERSHIP WHICH ANSON GIVING AS CHIEF SECRETARY. AGAIN, THERE IS A REPORT IN NEWSPAPERS THIS MORNING THAT MR GOODLAD IS GOING TO HAVE ON HIS AGENDA WHEN HE GOES TO PEKING, THE SUGGESTION THAT THE CHINESE SHOULD

I WANT TO MAKE IT MRS CHAN AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE SAR.

OR MOSTLY UNTRUE. UNTRUE SLIGHTLY STORY THAT

1SN'T JUST

I'VE HOPE

MADE AND COMPLETELY

WHOLLY UNTRUE. I ABSOLUTELY, REASONABLY CLEAR. IT IS A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF WHOEVER IT WHICH IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE VERY HIGHEST REGARD MRS CHAN'S ABILITIES. I THINK THAT FOR EXAMPLE, THE RATINGS SHOW THAT THE WHOLE COMMUNITY HAS WARMTH STRAIGHT-FORWARD, HONEST, COMPETENT STYLE OF LEADERSHIP. ABSOLUTELY TIP-TOP AND ANY JOB SHE DID, SHE WOULD WELL. BUT MR GOODLAD HAS A LOT OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT WHEN HE GOES TO PEKING AND THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE SAR IS NOT, REPEAT, NOT, UNDERLINE NOT, UNDERLINE NOT THREE TIMES, ONE OF THEM. IS THAT REASONABLY CLEAR?

PUBLIC OPINION TO HER DECISIVE, SHE'S BEEN DO OUTSTANDINGLY

ΤΟ THE

OF THE CHIEF

QUESTION: BUT WILL THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MAKE A SUGGESTION CHINESE GOVERNMENT THAT THE APPOINTMENT OF CANDIDATE EXECUTIVE?

GOVERNOR: WE HAVEN'T EVEN CONSIDERED THAT SO I DON'T KNOW STORY CAN HAVE COME FROM.

QUESTION: TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU THINK THAT MR GOODLAD'S TURN A NEW PAGE TO THE SINO-BRITISH RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE CHAN JUST MENTIONED THAT SHE WANTED TO START THE DIALOGUE CHINESE OFFICIALS ON THE TRANSITION OF CIVIL SERVANTS?

WHERE THE

VISIT CAN MRS ANSON WITH THE

/GOVERNOR: