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Friday, September 28, 1973

H.K. TO ATTEND MEETING ON HUMAN ENVIRONMENT IN BANGKOK

Hong Kong will be represented at the meeting of Representative

of Countries and Inter Governmental Bodies active in the Field of

Human Environment in the E.C.A.F.E. Region to be held next week in

Bangkok by Mr. G. Barnes, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Environment

Branch.

Mr. Barnes, who is also the Secretary of the Advisory Committee

on Environmental Pollution on Land and Water, leaves by air tonight.

The meeting will begin on Tuesday (October 2) and end on

Friday (October 5).

Commenting on the meeting, Mr. Barnes said that it was to

discuss a draft Asian Plan of Action which was based on the resolutions

made at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in June, 1972.

However, he said, the meeting would also provide a very good

opportunity to discuss the different methods of pollution control which

were being employed in the Far East and to tell our regional neighbours

what Hong Kong is trying to do in these fields.

Release time: 8.00 p.m.

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