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Governor: Two points there. First of all I totally accept what you said about the importance of the country parks in Hong Kong, the lungs of Hong Kong in a way. I find that when you take visitors to see any of our country parks they are absolutely astounded that Hong Kong is not only a busy, bustling urban community but it has also got places of the greatest beauty as well within a few miles of the city centre. I walk in the country parks quite a bit. I spent a weekend about two months ago walking across Lantau and had as great a walk as you could have had anywhere in the world.
Secondly, you are also right to say that because of the impact on the local environment, of the airport, we do have to try to make sure that the area around has an appropriate buffer. That goes for the water and the proposals for a marine park, and it goes for the land as well. I am sorry that I cannot give you a clear and specific answer on what has happened to the development of the park on the north of Lantau but having heard your impassioned plea, I will go back and find out and let you know. If you can leave your name and address with the telephonist I will ensure that you get a clear answer because I do accept what you said that it is important to conserve the beauty as much as possible of Lantau as well as develop the airport off its north coast.
Question (in Chinese): I hope that the Governor, before 1997, can really do more for us. First of all, I hope that the Governor, for the sake of maintaining the editorial autonomy of RTHK, I hope that it can be corporatised, that it can be made independent.
Secondly, I always go back to China and I can always see that the Public Security officials beat-up citizens. Well, this is not too much better in Hong Kong because the CAPO right now is such that the police would investigate into complaints against themselves. The Governor said that he has every intention to make the IPCC statutory. However, he is still unwilling to make it independent, that is to give it independent investigatory powers, so the situation may not been too much better.
Right now the police are investigating into complaints against themselves and it seems a lot of complaints just go down the drain and so people have no confidence in CAPO. It seems many people do not want to lodge their complaints because they think that it will be to no avail. So why don't you have something like the ICAC that you make the CAPO independent?
Presenter: There was a caller raising a similar question, Mr Law, who wanted an independent mechanism similar to the ICAC. Mr Governor, would you like to take the question on please, on RTHK first?