Financial Secretary to visit US
The Financial Secretary, Mr Donald Tsang, will leave Hong Kong for Washington DC this (Friday) evening to attend the 1995 Annual Meetings of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) and to visit New York.
Over 10,000 participants from about 180 member countries will take part in the meetings to be held in the US capital between October 10 to 12. The delegations are headed by finance ministers or governors of central banks.
While in Washington, Mr Tsang will attend a series of official functions where he will meet finance ministers, leading bankers and heads of financial institutions in the world. He will also attend a number of banking and financial seminars. He will fly to New York after participating in the meetings.
On October 12, he will address the National Committee on US-China Relations on "Hong Kong: A City in Transition".
A study team, headed by Executive Director (External), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Mr James H Lau, Jr, has also arrived in Washington to study the arrangements for the annual meetings. HKMA is responsible for organising the 1997 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Hong Kong.
Mr Tsang will return to Hong Kong on October 15.
End/Friday, October 6, 1995
Report on electric and magnetic field only a working draft
In response to enquiries about Electric and Magnetic Field (EMF) reports in today's (Friday) newspapers, a spokesman for the Working Group on EMF said the reported information was only a working draft material which had absolutely no standing at this time.
"The Working Group on EMF was recently advised by the President of United States National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) that the draft material formulated in connection with the work of a committee of the NCRP has been disseminated outside the Committee membership and portions have been published and widely distributed without the authorisation of the NCRP.
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