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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1992
LINKS WITH INT'L BODIES WILL CONTINUE AFTER 97
CONTINUE ΤΟ BE INTERNATIONAL BODIES
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS IN HONG KONG SHALL ABLE TO MAINTAIN THEIR LINKS WITH THEIR RELATED AFTER 1997.
THESE LINKS ARE PERMITTED BY BASIC LAW.
THE JOINT
DECLARATION AND THE
FOR THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY
CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN MR MICHAEL SZE, IN THE LEGISLATIVE WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON PETER WONG.
A
A
HAVE ESTABLISHED BODIES
THEIR
IN
MANY PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS IN HONG KONG
WITH VARIETY
INTERNATIONAL OF RELATIONSHIPS RESPECTIVE FIELDS, INCLUDING MEMBERSHIP IN THESE BODIES.
THEIR LINKS WITH THEIR
RELATED
ORGANISATIONS,
HOW THEY WISHED TO MAINTAIN INTERNATIONAL BODIES WAS PRIMARILY A MATTER FOR MR SZE SAID.
THOSE
FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT
"WE WOULD, OF COURSE, BE HAPPY TO OF THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WHERE WE CAN," HE ADDED.
OVERALL GROWTH OF CIVIL SERVICE MAINTAINED
OVERALL
SECRETARY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE GOVERNMENT HAS MAINTAINED A POLICY OF CONTROLLING
OF GROWTH
THREE THE CIVIL SERVICE IN THE PAST FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, MR BARRIE
THE
YEARS,
THE
WIGGHAM,
TOLD
THE
THIS
GRADES, CHANGES ADDED.
SO
IN
POLICY ALSO ALLOWS VARIATIONS BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS
AND AS TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT TO ANTICIPATE THE NATURE, PRIORITIES AND ORGANISATION OF ITS
AND
REACT WORK,
TO
HE
"THE
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INCREASING COMPLEXITY OF GOVERNMENT BUSINESS, AND RISING COMMUNITY EXPECTATIONS REQUIRE GREATER POLICY INPUT AT THE DIRECTORATE LEVEL,
MR WIGGHAM SAID, IN A REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LEE WING-
TAT.
PERCENTAGE
MR WIGGHAM SAID ALTHOUGH THE DIRECTORATE GREW
TERMS
FASTER
IN
YEARS, THE
NUMBER
PAST THAN THE SERVICE AS A WHOLE DURING THE
OF NEW DIRECTORATE POSTS YEAR ON YEAR
THREE
HAD
BEEN
MODEST.
HE SAID THE STRENGTH OF THE DIRECTORATE
AS
CITING
STATISTICS, AT JANUARY 1, 1989 WAS 1,129.
/THIS WAS