DEC 31 '85 17:54 GIS HK
Date:
Time:
30.12.85
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10.45 a.m.
Reporter:
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You did say that the general
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development must converge with the drafting of the Basic Law.
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you any mechanisms to guarantee that?
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The exchange of views is the
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With China?
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be a Basic Law, by say 1990.
And of course, the fact that there will So we will know by then the system
which lies beyond 1997. There is no point in developing a system which will diverge from that system which is going to be there in black and white by about 1990.
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Have you any arrangement that
Government Officials of UMELCO will meet Lu Ping, he is coming next
month?
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Well, the Hong Kong Government isn't
arranging Mr Lu Ping's programme. But Mr Lu Ping and his party will be here for the whole month I believe, and I am quite sure that during that month they will be meeting a very wide range of people. I can't arrange Mr Lu's programme for him to meet this group, or that group, or that part of the Government structure, or another part of it.
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But Sir David, isn't it the duty
of the Hong Kong Government to make sure that people visiting Hong Kong from China, at this level, should actually meet people who are elected or appointed, and have for a very long time been, well
certainly, very instrumental in running the Hong Kong affairs. Isn't
it your duty to see that every opportunity is given to these people
to meet?
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Well it is our hope I think.
our hope
that they would meet such people, yes. We can't force our views on any
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