Mr.
Martin
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Lee
considered
the only
disadvantage to his proposal was that the UKG might not like it because it is not money which would be spent exclusively on British troops. However, since the UKG hal not asked HK to make the contribution to it, it would be very difficult for them to find any valid objection to the proposal. He stressed that members of the consular corps from other nations had told him they found the proposal perfectly acceptable. He therefore appealed to Members to support his proposal to amend the proposal by imposing conditions on this contribution to the effect that Members were invited to approve the creation of a
new Other Non-Recurrent Subhead "Contribution towards the resolution of the Gulf conflict" with supplementary provision of $230 million as a contribution towards the IRC for relief of persons wounded, displaced, taken prisoner, or left without food or shelter by the current conflict in the Gulf.
Τη response to Mr. Martin Lee, the Chairman advised that he would put the Administration's amended proposal to Members at the end of the discussion.
In response to Mr. Martin Lee, the Secretary for the Treasury advised that paragraph 10 of the proposal should be amended to reflect that the supplementary provision would be partly offset from Head 106 Miscellaneous Services Subhead 789.
What was basically proposed was additional expenditure of $230 million and
and where there happened to be money in the additional commitments subheads, that would be used.
Mr. Ngai Shiu-kit advised that while he did not support war or killing, he objected to a sovereign state being invaded so mercilessly. Since HK was very much a part of the international trading community, he found the proposal acceptable, but he preferred the contribution to be used for medical and humanitarian
purposes.
Mr. Pang Chun-hoi did not support the proposal and considered that the contribution was being rushed as the UN had not requested funds from the international community.
Mr.
if the
Poon Chi-fai agreed that contribution was made, it should go to the UK instead of the USA which had not been very
very supportive over the Vietnamese boat people problem. However, he did not believe that the contribution would make any difference to the supply of oil and LPG to HK in the future. Procedurally, he would have preferred the UKG to have