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Question No. on in 1997

Exposition

Reply by the Honourable the Secretary for Administrative Services and Information Mr. P.K.Y. Tsao, CPM, JP

to a question by the Hon. Stephen Cheong in the Legislative Council on 25 May 1988

MR. CHEONG asked:

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International d'Expositions will have a meeting on 31st May 1988, will Government inform this Council what progress has been made by the ad hoc committee chaired by the Chief Secretary to study whether or not the Hong Kong Government is to request the British Government to register an interest at the Bureau that Hong Kong is studying seriously the feasibility and viability of being the venue for an Exposition to be organized in 1997?

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SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND INFORMATION:

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May I preface my answer by clarifying

Bureau International d'Expositions

The some facts about the way the BIE) functions. rules under which the BIE operates provide that

a bid to host an exhibition of this nature must

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be registered years before the event.

A bid

can also be registered at any time before that

date but there is no necessity to do so.

of the Bureau

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The

meeting/on 31 May is simply the BIE's regular

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Annual General Meeting.

This date, therefore,

in no way represents a deadline.

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