QUEENENT HOUSE HONG IOONISTA
HUN ZZ SEP 92 11:03
PG.04
alternative
projects
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would be
effectively
to
delay
or
abandon
which
encounter
opposition,
and I do not believe
that would be right or
acceptable to the people of Hong
Kong.
Nor
it would
ingenuity will
be right to pretend that Hong Kong's
allow it to discount the
handicap of an
inadequate infrastructure in the decades ahead.
22.
Hong
Kong's
infrastructural
needs
are clear.
We
will continue to plan to
meet them; press
on with our
endeavours to
complete projects on time and within budget;
and persevere in our efforts to win the Chinese Government's
cooperation.
Unless We
can secure that cooperation soon,
Hong Kong
modernisation of
faces
the
unhappy
prospect
of
delays
in the
its
port and airport facilities.
At the
end of the day,
Chinese colleagues
just to Hong Kong but also to Southern China.
the best we can do is to emphasise to our
that these projects are essential, not
THE AIRPORT: CLOSE TO THE LIMITS
23.
A year ago, I said that the case for Hong Kong's airport was overwhelming, that it deserved to be built
and that it would be built. While continuing to seek an
new
overall
agreement
with the
Chinese
Government,
we have
pressed ahead resolutely with the airport core projects in
accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding.
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