HK chief executive 'has to serve two masters': Carrie Lam full transcript

This is a transcript of a talk given in late August by Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam to a group of businesspeople in the city. The transcript is taken from an audio recording of Ms Lam's remarks that was obtained by Reuters. Last week, Reuters published most of her remarks and is now able to publish them in full.[HONG KONG] This is a transcript of a talk given in late August by Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam to a group of businesspeople in the city.

Now I want to make an appeal for love. It's not to pity me, or to sympathise with me, but love for Hong Kong. And I'm sure [name redacted] have that strong passion and love for Hong Kong. So without that, what other means we have is Hong Kong's core value, that is the rule of law. The rule of law takes several forms, of course law enforcement, our police officers who have been suffering tremendously this time, especially on an occasion when they are supposed to celebrate 175 years of police establishment, and especially at a time when they were so proud of the crime figures which are still coming down.

And if you look at yesterday's various protests, it's not only in the Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung area, but then it spread to Tsim Sha Tsui, Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin. Every spot of confrontations, we're talking about 50 to 300 at least, and they, actually because they were flowing so there could be some duplicates, so we might be seeing a smaller number.

When the time comes, now Hong Kong has survived the death pronounced by some people before 1997. At this point in time, although I'm actually pessimistic, but Hong Kong is not dead yet. Maybe she is very, very sick but she is not dead yet. We still have fundamentals here, we still have the nation behind us. So Hong Kong will have to go through several stages. The first is stamping out the violence, maybe doing other things in time to come which at the moment are not very available.

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