SEP 05 '86 13:45 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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When asked whether there was any plan to channel the reports to be compiled by the Legco delegates to the Chinese authorities, Sir David said that he believed that the people in charge of the building of the Daya Bay nuclear plant would take notice of these reports, which would become public documents.
The acting Governor, when asked to comment on leaks of the Harwell reports, said the Government was always concerned about leaks. He added that the leaks on the Harwell reports only reflected the situation of several months ago and not up-to-date information.
In moderate coverage, the media reported that a team of three officials would leave HK tonight for further discussions with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on various aspects of the Harwell consultancy.
Radio-1 quoted a team member, Graham Osborne, Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services, as saying that he hoped stage II of the Harwell report would be completed earlier. He said the Government would ask for the report to be written in language that could be understood by the general public.
The station and some papers reported that the Royal Observatory would provide the Harwell consultancy with information on HK's special circumstances to ensure that the future report would match HK's actual
situation.
Radio-3 reported that the Government was expected to face a tough bargaining session with the Harwell authorities following newspaper leaks that the officials were critical of the first phase of the report as it did not address itself to specific circumstances at Daya Bay,
The Oriental Daily News, in a report from London, said that FCO Minister Timothy Renton, in a reply to Labour MP Robert Parry, said the British Government had no intention of interfering with the date for the signing of the Daya Bay contracts because these contracts symbolised an important milestone in Sino-British trade.
Sources said that Mr Parry had wanted to see the Foreign Secretary, but the FCO decided that such a meeting would not be
fruitful.
A number of papers reported that copies of a booklet called "The Journalist's Guide Nuclear Energy and Zion Nuclear Power Station", which the Legco delegates brought back from their overseas visits, were distributed to the news media yesterday.
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