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Question: What is his response?

Financial Secretary: He was very interested.

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JLG experts to discuss government assets

Experts from the two sides of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group will meet in Hong Kong on November 27, 1996 to discuss the question of the Hong Kong Government's assets.

The British team will be led by British Representative, Mr Alan Paul. The Chinese team will be led by Chinese Representative, Mr Chen Zuo'er. They will be assisted by experts from the two sides.

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SG briefs UN Committee on Implementation of ICESCR

The Solicitor General, Mr Daniel R Fung, QC, said in Geneva today (Tuesday) that the Government continued to exercise its fullest endeavours to realise the rights in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, notwithstanding the challenges of the final period before the transfer of sovereignty.

Speaking at a hearing of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR) as a member of the British Delegation, Mr Fung said that since the last appearance before the Committee in November 1994, the Government had continued to pursue a wide range of initiatives to secure and improve the enjoyment of these rights at an exceptional time in Hong Kong's history.

The presence at the hearing of a strong team of Hong Kong Government officials as part of the British delegation, Members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council and the Hong Kong media was testimony to the state of health, awareness and value placed on the rights enshrined in the Covenant in Hong Kong, he added.