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MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1990

STI TO ATTEND INFORMAL MINISTERIAL MEETING ON URUGUAY ROUND

TODAY

HELD

THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR JOHN CHAN, LEFT

HE WILL ATTEND AN INFORMAL MINISTERIAL (MONDAY) FOR MEXICO WHERE MEETING ON THE URUGUAY ROUND OF MULTILATERAL TRADE UNDER THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT).

NEGOTIATIONS

HELD AT PUERTO VALLARTA FROM AT THE MEETING, WHICH WILL BE

BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL APRIL 18 TO 20, MR CHAN WILL BE ACCOMPANIED

KONG ΤΟ OF TRADE, MR T.H. CHAU; THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF HONG

AND THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF GATT, MR KEITH BROADBRIDGE; TRADE, MR PATRICK LAU.

THE MEETING IS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC MINISTERS FROM MEMBERS OF THE GATT.

IT WILL BE ATTENDED BY DELEGATIONS

BEEN

PLAYING

AN

OF INFORMAL GATHERINGS

FROM THOSE COUNTRIES AND ACTIVE ROLE

GATT

THE IN

TERRITORIES WHICH HAVE URUGUAY ROUND OF MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.

THE URUGUAY

ROUND

WAS LAUNCHED

AGRICULTURE,

IS DUE

CLOTHING,

FOR

SERVICES ARE

IN 1986 AND

TEXTILES AND COMPLETION THIS DECEMBER. ANTI-DUMPING, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND TRADE IN AMONG THE SUBJECTS COVERED BY THIS ROUND OF TRADE TALKS INVOLVING OVER 100 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES,

WOULD BE SIMILAR

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE MEETING NATURE TO THE LAST ONE WHICH TOOK PLACE IN TOKYO IN NOVEMBER, 1989.

BE

A

MINISTERS

IN

TO REVIEW "IT

FOR WILL

TIMELY GATHERING

EXCHANGE VIEWS ON PROGRESS IN THE URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS AND TO

COMPLETION ACCELERATING THE PACE OF THE TALKS IN GENEVA TO FACILITATE OF DRAFT FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS COVERING THE 15 NEGOTIATING SUBJECTS JULY THIS YEAR," HE SAID.

BY

NOISE ABATEMENT WORK IN SCHOOLS OPEN TO TENDER

UNDER

TENDERS FOR THE NOISE

THE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT IS INVITING

OF SCHOOLS FOUR GROUPS NOISE ABATEMENT WORKS IN ABATEMENT PROGRAMME THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

A TOTAL OF 24 SCHOOLS WOULD BE INVOLVED.

MINIMISE NOISE CREATED BY THE WORKS ARE DEEMED NECESSARY TO TRAFFIC. THE WORK ON ONE SCHOOL IS TO ABATE AIRCRAFT NOISE.

INSTALLATION OF DOUBLE THE WORKS WOULD INCLUDE

SPECIAL ROOMS AIR-CONDITIONING UNITS TO CLASSROOMS AND

WINDOWS AND AFFECTED

BY

NOISE.

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