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INFO ROUTINE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG,UKMIS GENEVA INFO ROUTINE HKGO WASHINGTON, HKGO NEW YORK, HKGO GENEVA INFO ROUTINE HKG SAN FRANCISCO

INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON

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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: PRESS COVERAGE : WEEKLY ROUNDUP

SUMMARY

1. NEWS RELATING TO THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG AND THE PADS PROJECTS WAS GIVEN GOOD COVERAGE WHILE THAT OF THE NATIONALITY ISSUE WAS MINOR.

HONG KONG'S FUTURE

2. THE MAIDEN SPEECH BY SENIOR EXCO MEMBER BARONESS DUNN IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS WAS CARRIED IN WIDE COVERAGE. CHIEF SECRETARY SIR DAVID FORD SAID IN SEATTLE THAT HONG KONG'S RELATIONS WITH CHINA WERE CENTRAL TO A SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION, THAT COMMERCE WOULD CONTINUE TO DRIVE HONG KONG AND CHINA CLOSER, AND THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT'S HORIZONS WERE NOT BOUND BY 1997.

3. THE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE, JI PENGFEI, TOLD A CITY POLYTECHNIC DELEGATION THAT THE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR HONG KONG SHOULD BE MAINLY CARRIED OUT BY THE TERRITORY ALTHOUGH THE MAINLAND AGREED IN PRINCIPLE THAT OVERSEAS CHINESE NATIONALS COULD GET EMPLOYMENT IN HONG KONG. THE VICE- DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE, LU PING, TOLD AN URBCO DELEGATION TO PEKING THAT THE SIGNING OF THE JD HAD HELPED SOLVE MANY PROBLEMS.

4. SPEAKERS AT A SEMINAR ORGANISED BY A HONG KONG STUDENT UNION IN NEW YORK SAID THAT THE ONLY WAY TO MAINTAIN HONG KONG'S STABILITY AND PROSPERITY AND TO SUSTAIN ITS VITALITY WAS TO CONTINUE ITS NORMAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHINA. THE US CONSUL-GENERAL OF HONG KONG, RICHARD WILLIAMS, TOLD THE SEMINAR THAT THE US WOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE JD. THE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, JOHN KAMM, SAID THAT IN CONSIDERING ITS POLICIES, THE US CONGRESS SHOULD TAKE ACCOUNT OF HONG KONG AND THAT SINCE SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS HAD IMPROVED,

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