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RECE VIL KY.
4 JUL 1986
OCMIAN 7621
CONFIDENTIAL
00 PEKIN
FM FCOLN TO HOKON
031750Z JUL
GRS 448
21
NOCX
PA
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47621
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FM FCO
TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELNO 1325
OF 031750Z JULY 86
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, PARIS, UKDEL IAEA VIENNA
2073
2156
YOUR TELNO 2073: NUCLEAR SAFETY: CHINA
1.
WE TAKE YOUR POINTS THAT IT IS UMELCO AND THE HONG KONG
PUBLIC WHO MUST BE CONVINCED OF THE SAFETY OF THE DAYA BAY
PROJECT AND THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT CANNOT GET INTO THE
POSITION OF FIGHTING EDF'S BATTLE FOR THEM. BUT WE ASSUME THAT
AS PART OF ITS GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF
THE TERRITORY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WISH TO BE AS FULLY
INFORMED AS POSSIBLE ABOUT SAFETY ASPECTS OF PWR DESIGN AND OF
THE DAYA BAY PROJECT IN PARTICULAR, AND TO ENSURE THAT THIS
INFORMATION IS AS EFFECTIVELY DISSEMINATED AS POSSIBLE. THIS IS
WHAT WE HAD IN MIND IN SUGGESTING THAT EDF'S BRIEFING MIGHT BE OF
VALUE TO THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.
2.
AS SEEN FROM HERE HONG KONG OPINION WILL NO DOUBT HAVE IN
MIND THAT DECISIONS TAKEN IN THE PAST BY THE HKG WERE PART OF THE
COMPLEX OF DECISIONS PERMITTING THE PROJECT TO GO AHEAD: INDEED
THEY WERE CRUCIAL IN CREATING CONDITIONS FOR THE PROJECT TO GO
AHEAD. IN NOVEMBER 1983, IN ANNOUNCING TO LEGCO THE DECISION TO
ENDORSE HONG KONG PARTICIPATION IN THE PROJECT THE THEN SECRETARY
FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH
ASPECTS AND SAID THE GOVERNMENT IS CONSCIOUS OF THESE MATTERS
AND CLEARLY A PRIME CONSIDERATION OF ALL PARTIES INVOLVED WILL BE
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