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HONG KONG GENARAL CHAMBER OF CORICERCH 15 JANUARY 1990

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GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. DOUGLAS HURD,

TO THE HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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FOREIGN SECRETARY:

Thank you very much, Mr.Chairman, for your kind words of

welcome, for your sparing use of metaphor. I am very grateful to

you and to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, which has for

many years been at the beart of Hong Kong's success story and the

British Chamber which is an important new element in Britain's

thriving commercial involvement in Hong Kong. I am grateful to you

both for your hospitality, which has been of the same cheerful yet

questioning kind which I have found on the streets and in the

different places that I have been visiting in the last two days.

to

It is personally fascinating to me, Ladies and Gentlemen,

come back to Hong Kong after so many years. Looking out from this

hotel just now, I was reminded of my first night spent in Hong Kong

in the Peninsula lotel in 1954 which then of course dominated

Kowloon as of right and looked across the Star Ferry and the harbour

to quite a different skyline on the Island of Victoria and ever