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Legal study visit to Hong Kong

At the invitation of the Hong Kong Government, Mr Wu Minying, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Department, Ministry of Justice, People's Republic of China, will lead a delegation of eight officials from the Ministry of Justice, the Legislative Affairs Commission under the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Information Centre and the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council to visit Hong Kong from tomorrow (Wednesday) to April 17.

They will meet Hong Kong Government officials from the Attorney General's Chambers, the Constitutional Affairs Branch, Correctional Services Department, Legal Aid Department, Immigration Department, Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Judiciary and Royal Hong Kong Police Force.

The visit is one in a series of reciprocal Legal Study Visits that provide opportunities for officials from the Chinese and Hong Kong Governments to meet on a regular basis to learn more about each other's legal system at a practical level.

Since the start of the Legal Study Visits programme in 1988, Hong Kong has sent five delegations to China, and three Chinese delegations have visited Hong Kong.

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DDGT to attend roundtable meeting in France

The Deputy Director-General of Trade, Mr Tam Wing-pong, will leave Hong Kong tomorrow (Wednesday) to join 50 other senior officials and trade experts from Europe and East Asia for discussions on international economic organisation in the post-Uruguay Round era at a roundtable meeting to be held in Evian, France between April 12 and 14.

Organised by the European Institute of Japanese Studies in conjunction with the Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute, the meeting will look forward to the first World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference scheduled for December in Singapore, with further multilateral negotiations in mind, aimed at increasing the global contestability of national markets.