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President, I eagerly hope that after this debate, the SAR Government will carefully consider the possibility of developing platforms that provide genuine opportunities for young people to express views, as in the examples of the United Kingdom or Europe which I cited earlier on, so as not to allow the media or anyone else to rubbish their views by saying that young people are all very radical, who do nothing but causing destruction and scolding others.

I think this can no longer be used as the excuse to repay high earners and ignore those who are desperately in need.

[...] [...] exist in the Basic Law, nor can it ignore the original powers provided for in Basic Law.

Therefore, while I have no intention of ruling out HA members' contribution, I must still say their contribution should not be allowed to overshadow the defects of the system itself.

Of course, if we find that there is an increase in the demand for ambulance service in future, I will certainly not rule out the possibility of increasing the number of ambulances or even the manpower.

In 1998 the Government set up a Task Force on Employment under the leadership of the Financial Secretary to study special measures designed to solve the problem of unemployment, including those targeting youth unemployment. However, youth unemployment figures remain high, which seemingly reflecting the point that the plan has not been able to suit the remedy to the case in drawing up appropriate policies for youth employment and training.

He said that Mainland students should not be denied the opportunity to participate in such programmes.

If some political parties posture themselves as representing all members of the public but negate the wishes of the majority public and rule out the aspirations of the Hong Kong public on account of their self-interests or some special political reasons, they warrant our condemnation.

That was how a proposal that could make the public service broadcaster truly financially independent of the Government was ruled out.

Bad waste management negates many efforts with regard to the delivery of safe drinking water and to sanitation and hygiene education and makes it more difficult to reach Millennium Development Goal 7; it is, in effect, a disinvestment.

Therefore, at the present stage, I think we cannot deny that while discussing the principles of the Basic Law, we can look into the legislative intent of the Basic Law, and we should conduct this study to ensure that we conform to this legislative intent and the long-term policy laid down by the country when sovereignty over Hong Kong was resumed.

Therefore, it is too arbitrary and biased for the public to criticize the HA on the basis of some policies it made in the past and thus denied its contribution to the community.

First, we will make the best endeavours to track down the culprit; second, we will enhance the deployment of police officers in that district, so as to prevent the further occurrence of comparable incidents.

[...] [...] extremely unhappy event wiping out the pro-democracy [...]

The present motion to remove this demand is to deny its importance and thus has breached the understanding reached in the Legislative Council's In-House meeting on 25 October.

(b) Deter subversive acts conducted by the United States against the people and Government of Eritrea directly or by proxy in its bid to overshadow and derail the central issue on the one hand, and to cover up its failed policies of stoking regional crises and popular sufferings on the other

This was the result of their success in company administration.

I also oppose cancelling the entire provision to the CAPO simply because the investigations against the police are carried out by the police. This would be tantamount to ignoring the contribution made by the 170 members of the CAPO, 19 members of the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) (three members of the Legislative Council included), 25 staff of the IPCC office together with 63 specially appointed observers, and several hundred people who have worked towards a serious and impartial investigation into, and towards monitoring, the complaints against the police.

Still it does not make much soul searching with regard to what objectives have been neglected or yet to be fulfilled.

Some members objected to such a change on the grounds that the United Nations Model Convention was relevant mainly to treaties between countries at different levels of development, and therefore to remove that reference would do a disservice to the Convention.

We are not here to say that the Estate Managers and the Executive Committee lack an understanding of the residents' needs and estate management. However, if the Society would allow some resident representatives to sit on its Executive Committee and Estate Management Subcommittee, the residents' interests can certainly be more fully reflected.

They are able to reflect the views of various sectors and balance the interests of different sectors of society.

[...] [...] needs; in the worst case diminishing space [...]