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report.

1.

The Government intends to publish the

The first meeting of the

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place within the next ten days.

Committee

Committee's b.

Committee should take

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I know that the whole

community in Hong Kong will recognise the importance of the Committee's task and will, I hope, give it every support.

I am glad to say that the Chairmen of the Stock Exchange

and of the Futures Exchange, on behalf of themselves and of

the members of their respective committees, have promised

their full co-operation, as has the Chairman of the

Securities and Commodities Trading Commissions.

grateful to them for this.

I am

le

Stock and Futures Markets

8.

Sir, I have described the way forward. The work

to be carried out by the Securities Review Committee is of

the utmost importance to the community of Hong Kong. With

the establishment of this Committee, I believe that we have

the opportunity to build a financial centre of which we

all be justly proud.

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g.

I would now like to reply to some of the points

that have been made by Members of this Council in relation

to recent events concerning the stock market and futures

market in Hong Kong.