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Acting Governor's transcript
Following is the transcript of the remarks (English) made to the media by the Acting Governor, Mrs Anson Chan, after inspecting environmental black spots in Yuen Long this (Thursday) afternoon:
Question: When will you officially quit your existing post to help the Chief Executive (Designate) to form the future SAR...?
Mrs Chan: Can I say that there is no foundation to these rumours that I am about to quit my job to join this CE (Designate) and his team. I would only stress this: we have said on many occasions -- the Governor and myself and other senior officials have said that we will co-operate fully with the Chief Executive when this person has been selected. As to the mode of co-operation, it's something that Mr Lu Ping and I touched on when I saw him earlier in Beijing about two or three months ago. And we both agreed that this is a matter that should be discussed once the Chief Executive has been selected, we can then discuss exactly how the Government can co-operate. We will be prepared to provide all the human resources and any other practical help that we can give to the Chief Executive (Designate).
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Acting Governor sees action on NT environmental black spots
The Acting Governor, Mrs Anson Chan, today (Thursday) inspected the latest work progress achieved by the Lands Department's Task Force Black Spots (TFB) in cleaning up environmental black spots in Yuen Long.
She was met on arrival at the TFB office in Sheung Shui by the Chairman of the Special Committee overseeing the TFB, Dr Samuel Wong; the Director of Lands, Mr Bob Pope; and the Government Land Agent (TFB), Mr Allan Hay.
Mrs Chan was told that since its formation in August 1994, the TFB had successfully cleared a total of 313 sites with a total area of 186,800 square metres of government land.