SEP 18 '86 11:28 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
Martin Lee told Sing Pao that he did not understand why acting Senior Legco Unofficial S.L.Chen read out a letter from Sir David Akers-Jones at Wednesday's Legco in-house meeting. He said that he was authorised by the Governor to release the text of the letter to the
press.
The paper carried a summary of the letter. Ta Kung Pao published the full text of the letter.
In a statement this morning, Legco member Poon Chi-fai said that although he voted for a special sitting of Legco, he was surprised by media reports that he supported a move by some councillors to go to Government House to press the Governor over this issue.
In moderate news and pictorial coverage, the media reported that about 60 members from the anti-nuclear coalition staged a demonstration outside Government House yesterday morning to support calls for a special Legco meeting.
The group later petitioned Umelco to ask for an explanation for not calling a special sitting. They also asked the Legco missions to convey their call for the shelving of the Daya Bay project to the Chinese authorities when they visited Peking.
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The anti-nuclear lobby planned to stage a massive protest march in ten days to press the Government to stop participating in the Daya Bay project.
In an interview with Ming Pao, the leader of the Legco mission to Europe, Maria Tam, said she would fight for Peking's acceptance of suggestions in the Legco nuclear report. She added that there was no need to reflect to Peking the views of the anti-nuclear lobby as they had already done that earlier.
Eleven of the 13 Legco members involved in the nuclear fact-finding missions yesterday decided to accept China's invitation to go to Peking on September 18. The remaining two, Poon Chung-kwong and Chiu Hin-kwong, would not make the trip because of personal
commitments.
Radio-3 quoted one of the Legco delegates, Lee Yu-tai, as saying that he was duty-bound to reflect to the Chinese authorities public opinion here which asked for a delay in the signing of the Daya Bay contracts. He did not think expressing this view to Peking would lead
a spill In the Legeo miccione because the delegations as a whole had not taken any stand.
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