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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992

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42 GOVT OFFICIALS DEPLOYED TO PAA

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A TOTAL OF 42 GOVERNMENT OFFICERS HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED TO

AUTHORITY AIRPORT

IN (PAA) PROVISIONAL

37 POSTS SINCE ESTABLISHMENT IN APRIL 1990, THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, ANSON CHAN, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE

ITS

MRS

17 IN GRADE AND

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON SAMUEL WONG, MRS CHAN SAID OF THE 37 POSTS CONCERNED FIVE WERE IN THE DIRECTORATE RANK,

AND TECHNICAL GRADES AND 15 WERE FOR GENERAL PROFESSIONAL SECRETARIAL STAFF.

THE

PRESENT

POSITION IS THAT, OF THE TOTAL

OF 42

OFFICERS

DEPLOYED TO THE PAA:

NINETEEN

POSTS HAVE ALREADY RETURNED TO OFFICERS

IN

THE

CIVIL SERVICE;

TWO OFFICERS WILL RETURN TO THE CIVIL SERVICE BY THE END MAY AND 12 OTHERS WILL BE REVERTING SOON;

OF

*

ONE OFFICER WILL REMAIN WITH THE AUTHORITY UNTIL YEAR; AND

MAY NEXT

*

EIGHT OFFICERS JOINED THE PAA.

HAVE RESIGNED FROM THE

CIVIL SERVICE AND

DISCUSSIONS WITH CHINA ON II MOTHERS ONGOING

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DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE GOVERNMENT HAD ON MANY OCCASIONS RAISED THE MATTER WITH THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES WITH THE AIM OF ENSURING THE EARLY RETURN TO HONG KONG OF THE MOTHERS INVOLVED.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO QUESTION BY THE HON TAM YIU-CHUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

"WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO, AND WE HOPE THEY GET THEIR PERMITS IN THE NEAR FUTURE," HE ADDED.

THE SECRETARY SAID A TOTAL OF 70 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MOTHERS WERE REMOVED TO CHINA IN EARLY 1988.

TO DATE, 34 OF THEM HAD RETURNED TO HONG KONG ON PERMITS ISSUED BY THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES, HE SAID.

ONE-WAY

THE REMAINING 36 MOTHERS WHO HAD YET TO OBTAIN THEIR ONE-WAY PERMITS CAME FROM HAIFENG, SHANMEI, PUNING, HUIYANG, CHAOYANG, PANYU AND DONGGUAN, HE ADDED.

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