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CS demands immediate return of vessels and crew
The Government has registered its very serious concern with the Chinese authorities about the recent incursion of a Chinese vessel into Hong Kong waters and requested the immediate return of both the vessels and crewmen on board.
Commenting on the incursion after visiting the Fire Services Department this (Thursday) afternoon, the Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, said: "We very much hope that the Chinese will take immediate action to return the vessels and the crewmen and give an undertaking that it will do everything it possibly can to prevent such incursions."
She noted that the Deputy Commissioner of Police had led a delegation and was currently having talks with the officials of Guangdong Provincial Security Bureau.
"I might also add that Mr Goodlad, the Minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs, will be seeing the Chinese Ambassador in the United Kingdom to raise this incident and to put across our concern.
"At the same time, the British Embassy in Beijing will also be raising this incident with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," she said.
Meanwhile, Mrs Chan was happy to note that the number of incursions had decreased in recent years.
"We want to make sure that this decreasing trend continues," she said.
End/Thursday, March 30, 1995
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