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Sources say the high-powered HX delegation will also ask Mra Thatcher to put pressure on Chinese leaders to heed nuclear safety recommendations contained in a report produced by HK's legislators after a global fact-finding mission.
In a separate report, the Post said the final draft of the Legislative Councillors' nuclear fact-finding report has recommended that employment terms for technicians and engineers working on the Daya Bay project be improved.
The Standard said a tactfully worded series of "observations" in the officially still secret Legco fact-finding missions' report provide muscle for HK to maintain close-range safety monitoring of the Daya Bay nuclear plant. The paper published the 47 observations in the draft report.
The paper said a group of scientists and an anti-nuclear lobby, whose budgets differ by about $1 million, are putting the final touches to their respective shows on nuclear energy. A "Nuclear Technology Exhibition" co-presented by the Chinese Nuclear Society and the HK Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, will be held from September 12 to 26. The Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Nuclear Plant is to launch their two-day exhibition on the same topic a few days earlier on September 6.
Ming Pao said that if the report by Legco's nuclear fact-finding missions was not made public in time, the nuclear debate would develop into something that would embarrass the HK Government, Britain and China. There was a remote possibility that Martin Lee might succeed in lobbying enough support for Legco to invoke the Legco (Powers and Priviledges) Ordinance to press the Government to make public, all its confidential documents. There was also a very slim chance that 'Legco members would pass a resolution to ask Britain to ask China to delay the signing of the relevant contracts or to relocate the plant.
Sing Pao said that the Legco report was the most important document in the nuclear debate and that it should be carefully studied.
Tin Tin Daily News called on china to allow HK to participate in the monitoring of the operation of the nuclear plant.
The Express said that judging from the first draft of the Legco report, the building of the Daya Bay plant was a foregone conclusion.
Sing Tao Wan Pao asked that since the HK Government had not been heeding public opinion on the issue, how could one expect China to accept local views.
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