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Following is the transcript of the media session by the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Donald Tsang, after he attended a luncheon talk hosted by the British Chamber of Commerce at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre today (April 25):

Reporter: How do you expect to hear the appointment and how confident are....

Chief Secretary for Administration: I'm not going to talk about my own appointment. But I'm sure Mr Tung is working on it. As soon as the legislature has indicated its approval of the system as a whole, I'm sure by then Mr Tung will be in a position to tell everybody what he has lined up.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)

End/Thursday, April 25, 2002

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