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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1994

TRANSCRIPT OF THE CHIEF SECRETARY'S MEDIA SESSION

BY THE HONG

THE FOLLOWING IS THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEDIA SESSION CHIEF SECRETARY, MRS ANSON CHAN, LATE LAST (SUNDAY) NIGHT AT THE KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON RETURN FROM HER OFFICIAL VISIT TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES:

TO

ATLANTA. BOTH IN

CS: GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. SORRY TO KEEP YOU WAITING. IT IS GREAT.

VISITED CANADA BE BACK IN HONG KONG AFTER TWO WEEKS, AS YOU KNOW, I AND THREE CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND WE'VE BEEN VERY ENCOURAGED BY THE RESPONSE THAT WE RECEIVED

THE MET CANADA AND

UNITED THE

STATES. IN CANADA, MINISTER, WITH THE PREMIER OF ONTARIO, BOB RAE, WITH THE SECRETARY STATE, MR RAYMOND CHAN, OTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND LEADING MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

AND

PRIME OF

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IN THE UNITED STATES, AS YOU KNOW, WE MOUNTED THE BIGGEST EVER

WFRE. RE-. PROMOTIONAL TOUR. AND NOT ONLY HAD WE BEEN ABLE TO, AS IT

OUR CONTACTS

NEW WITH

YORK WHERE EMPHASISE ESTABLISH TRADITIONALLY, WE HAD A PRESENCE, WE'D ALSO BEEN ABLE TO ESTABLISH PRESENCE IN CITIES LIKE CHICAGO AND ATLANTA. IT IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL ATLANTA BEING THE TO ESTABLISH A PRESENCE IN SOUTHERN STATES, AND

IS AN TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION HUB OF THE UNITED STATES, IT

CONTACTS WITH IDEAL PLACE TO START WITH. WE MADE VERY, VERY GOOD PEOPLE IN ATLANTA, AND WE'LL OBVIOUSLY BUILD ON THESE CONTACTS IN MONTHS AND YEARS AHEAD.

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THE

RECEIVED,

IN BOTH KONG'S

I HAVE BEEN VERY ENCOURAGED BY THE RESPONSE THAT KE AS I SAID, BOTH FROM THE CANADIANS AND FROM THE AMERICANS,

ABOUT HONG OPTIMISTIC AFRY REMAIN THESE COUNTRIES, THEY ECONOMIC PROSPECT. BUT CONCERNS WERE PUT TO ME ABOUT WHETHER HONG KONG CONCERNED WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED AFTER 1997. IN PARTICULAR, THEY ARE

THE LEVEL ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE OF THE RULE OF LAW, MAINTENANCE OF

CAN CONTINUE TO PLAYING FIELD AND ALSO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER WE MAINTAIN A CLEAN, OPEN AND EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT. MY VISIT PROVIDED

CONCERNS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS, TO PUT THESE

AMERICANS THAT WE IN. PROSPECTIVE AND TO ASSURE THE CANADIANS AND THE DO INDEED AND ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN TO ENSURE THAT THE INTEND ΤΟ RULE OF LAW WILL BE MAINTAINED AFTER 1997, THAT WE FULLY CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD AND ALSO THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WILL REMAIN AS EFFICIENT AND AS CLEAN AS IT IS NOW.

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