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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1994

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TRANSCRIPT OF CHIEF SECRETARY'S MEDIA SESSION

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CHIEF ON

FOLLOWING IS THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEDIA SESSION BY THE SECRETARY, MRS ANSON CHAN, AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE PROGRESS REPORT UNDERTAKINGS IN THE 1992 AND 1993 POLICY ADDRESSES TODAY (MONDAY):

OF LIKED.

WE STILL

CS: I'LL SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN I'LL TAKE ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS. TODAY, WE ARE PUBLISHING THE PROGRESS REPORT WHICH GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S PERFORMANCE IN MEETING THE POLICY OBJECTIVES, A TOTAL OF 221 POLICY PROPOSALS, WHICH WERE PUT FORWARD IN THE GOVERNOR'S 1992 AND

REMARKABLE ACHIEVED 1993 POLICY ADDRESS. ON THE WHOLE, WE HAVE PROGRESS. WE HAVE ALREADY FULLY IMPLEMENTED 75 OF THE COMMITMENTS THAT TARGET TO WE MADE IN THESE TWO POLICY ADDRESSES AND WE ARE WELL ON ACHIEVING 94 PERCENT OF OUR TOTAL COMMITMENTS. THERE ARE A NUMBER AREAS WHERE THE PROGRESS HAS NOT BEEN AS GOOD AS WE WOULD HAVE BUT, WE WILL BE MAKING EVERY EFFORT AND ON CURRENT PROGRESS, EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO MEET OUR TARGET BY THE STIPULATED DATE. I THERE CAN BE VERY FEW GOVERNMENTS WHICH, FIRST OF ALL, HAVE

ACCOUNT OF ITS THEIR

AND GIVEN SUCH A DETAILED POLICY OBJECTIVES

THINK PERFORMANCE AND IN RESPECT OF THE SUCCESS RATE OF 94 PERCENT, I

I'VE CAN

RATE. ALL BE ENCOURAGED BY THIS VERY HIGH SUCCESS

WE WE STRESSED,

ARE

GOVERNMENT. AN ACCOUNTABLE AND EXECUTIVE-LED

ΤΟ THE BELIEVE IN SETTING OUT OUR POLICY OBJECTIVES AND ACCOUNTING PUBLIC

WE HAVE ACHIEVED THESE HOW ACTUALLY

TARGETS

WILL THE ΤΟ CONTINUE

MAKE THE BEST OF EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE THE STIPULATED DATE. I'LL TAKE A FEW QUESTIONS.

WE

THINK PUBLISHED

AS

AND WE

BY TARGET

IT THE

QUESTION: MRS CHAN, WHERE THERE HAS BEEN SOME SHORTFALLS, IS CASE OF THE ADMINISTRATION BEING TOO AMBITIOUS IN SETTING THE ORIGINAL HAVE SET YOU TARGET OR IS IT OVERTAKEN BY UNFORESEEN EVENTS WHICH BACK?

WHERE THE

CS: I THINK THERE ARE VARIOUS REASONS. MOST OF THE AREAS PROGRESS HAS NOT BEEN, PERHAPS, AS GOOD AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED, ARE IN DIFFICULTY FACT IN THE SOCIAL WELFARE AREA AND THERE, ONE PARTICULAR

THE IS LOCATING SUITABLE PREMISES FOR WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED, SERVICES THAT WE WISH TO LAY ON FOR THE

CHILDREN, ELDERLY, DISABLED PEOPLE. WE ARE RECEIVING MAXIMUM CO-OPERATION FROM PARTIES INVOLVED AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE STRENUOUS

I LOCATE SUITABLE PREMISES. IN OTHER AREAS,

SOME OF

MAY HAVE THE PROJECTS, WE EXAMPLE,

IN

IMPACT, DIFFICULTIES

ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESUMPTIONS AND CLEARANCES OF LAND. SO, THERE AGAIN, MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS. BUT ON THE WHOLE, I STRESS AGAIN, IT

OF REMARKABLE

RATE SUCCESS

TO HAVE ACHIEVED 94 PERCENT COMMITMENTS.

VARIOUS

AND ALL THE EFFORTS ΤΟ THINK PROBABLY, UNDER-ESTIMATED

FOR

THE

CARRYING WE WOULD

OUT

BE

IS A

TOTAL

OUR

QUESTION: MRS CHAN, DO YOU THINK THAT SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS BEING THE WAY THEY ARE NOW, HAVE HINDERED PROGRESS...?

OF

A

CS: I HAVE SAID THAT IN ONE OR TWO AREAS, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE CASE THE ADAPTATION AND LOCALISATION OF LAW, IT IS A COMMON FACT, IT IS

WOULD KNOWN FACT THAT PROGRESS IN THE JLG HAS NOT BEEN AS GOOD AS WE

HEARD

THE LIKED

RECENT HAVE

BUT

FROM I THINK YOU WILL ALSO HAVE MEETING BETWEEN DOUGLAS HURD AND QIAN QICHEN THAT BOTH SIDES DO WISH TO CO-OPERATE AND I VERY HOPE THAT IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, WE WILL BE SITTING DOWN TO EXAMINE THOSE AREAS WHERE BOTH SIDES CAN INTENSIFY CO- OPERATION.

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