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Transcript of Governor's remarks

The following is a transcript of the remarks made by the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, after a meeting of the Executive Council this (Tuesday) morning:

Governor: It's been a rather sad day for us in the Executive Council because it's the last meeting that Baroness Dunn attend our council. I want to say for the record what I feel privately. Lydia was a member of the Legislative Council from 1976 and She's been a member of the Executive Council since 1982 and Senior Member both while I've been Governor and before. She's also got a huge number of other public service responsibilities which she's discharged with great distinction over the years, particularly of course her work for the TDC. When one thinks about those who have built Hong Kong and built Hong Kong's tremendous success, one immediately thinks of Lydia Dunn who has been one of the greatest architects for Hong Kong's miraculous development over the last decades. So, as I said upstairs to my colleagues on the Executive Council, we will miss Lydia as a wise and very experienced colleague and I will miss her, we will all miss her as a dedicated and very loyal friend. But we'll look forward to seeing her as often as possible here in Hong Kong and whenever we see her, we'll remember all that she's done for this community.

End/Tuesday, July 25, 1995

Transcript of Baroness Dunn's media session

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Following is the transcript of the Senior Member Baroness Dunn speaking to the press after ExCo meeting today (Tuesday):

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Baroness Dunn: Thank you. I am grateful to the Governor for those kind and generous words. It's been a tremendous honour for me to have worked closely with the Governor in the last three years. It's been a personal pleasure and inspiration as well. Well, I can say that my last meeting of the Executive Council was every bit as interesting as my first meeting now some thirteen years ago. I can now enthusiastically look forward to my Sundays, knowing that there are no ExCo papers to read. But I know I shall miss Tuesday mornings, the cut and thrust of policy making with some of the brightest and best informed minds in Hong Kong, all of them committed to finding what is best for Hong Kong.