XN000022-1987-11-23 — Page 3

2

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1987

SIR DAVID

SAID THE FIVE-DAY

CONFERENCE

WOULD

PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, RESEARCH FINDINGS AND THE PROCESS OF INTERNATIONAL WORKING EXPERIENCE AND GREATLY ASSIST CO-OPERATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUG ABUSE.

ΤΟ THE WORLD HE ALSO HOPED THAT THE CONFERENCE WOULD PASS ON

AND OUR THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE "TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES, OUR LIVES

ACTIVE SUPPORT AND CHILDREN FROM THE MENACE OF DRUG ABUSE, WE NEED CLOSE CO-OPERATION FROM THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

"

RECOMMENDATIONS ON MONITORING POWER COMPANIES ACCEPTED

HAS

THE WORKING PARTY ON THE MONITORING OF THE POWER COMPANIES

BY MADE

INDEPENDENT ACCEPTED A TOTAL

RECOMMENDATIONS OF 17

THE GOVERNMENT'S CONSULTANTS COMMISSIONED IN AUGUST 1983 TO EXAMINE

THE COMPANIES, ARRANGEMENTS FOR MONITORING THE POWER ECONOMIC SERVICES, MRS ANSON CHAN, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

SECRETARY FOR

IN OCTOBER MRS CHAN POINTED BY THE CONSULTANTS BE INCLUDED

RELEASING THE FINDINGS OF THE WORKING PARTY SET UP 1985 TO CONSIDER THE CONSULTANTS' RECOMMENDATIONS, OUT THAT FIVE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS PUT FORWARD

THESE WILL CONTINUE TO ARE ALREADY THE PRESENT PRACTICE, IN THE NORMAL MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS.

CONSULTANTS

MONITORING

(EW), SHE NOTED THAT THE CONSULTANTS, MESSRS ERNST AND WHINNEY

BOTH ENGLISH SUBMITTED A REPORT WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN MARCH 1985 IN

THE HAD

REASSURED SPECIFICALLY AND CHINESE. THE

COMPANIES

BOTH WAS OF THE POWER GOVERNMENT THAT ITS

ENSURING A RELIABLE ADEQUATE AND APPROPRIATE, GIVEN THE EMPHASIS ON

COST OF SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY AT A COST THAT WAS COMPARABLE WITH THE ELECTRICITY IN OTHER PLACES IN THE REGION.

CONSTITUTED AN INDEPENDENT "WHILST THE CONSULTANTS' ENDORSEMENT OF THE EXISTING MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS, EW

OPERATIONAL A NUMBER OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW

ACCEPTANCE THE

REPORT

THE

MONITORING RECOMMENDATIONS REASSURANCE TO COMMITMENT TO

SYSTEM COULD BE IMPROVED.

THE

NOW SHOULD

PUBLIC

MRS CHAN SAID.

ALSO OFFERED

ASPECTS

OF THE OF THR MEASURE OF POSITIVE

M

PROVIDE

ADDITIONAL AN

A MAKING IS THAT GOVERNMENT FURTHER IMPROVE THE MONITORING OF THE POWER COMPANIES,

SHE RECALLED