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He said the approach taken in addressing the issue of racial discrimination through the present study had the support of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

"In March last year, in its concluding observations on the 13th report on Hong Kong under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Committee said that the study was a 'constructive means of determining the extent of problems' in this area. Where discrimination is found to exist, CERD had said 'the study could serve as an important basis for the development of solutions'.

"The Government considers that it is for members of the public to judge whether, on the basis of their own experience and of their assessment of the total picture the findings presented in the consultation paper, racial discrimination is a problem in Hong Kong," he added.

Copies of the consultation paper are now available at District Offices and the Marketing Office of the Information Services Department on the 17th floor, Siu On Centre, 176-192, Lockhart Road, Wan Chai.

The document is also available through the HAB home page on the internet from which it can be downloaded. The address is:

http://www.info.gov.hk/hab/index.htm

Members of the public are invited to submit their views in writing to HAB on 31st floor, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, or fax number: 2591-6002 by April 30.

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Legal study visit to China

The Solicitor General, Mr Daniel R Fung, QC, will lead a delegation from the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) to visit Beijing, Dalian and Kunming between February 21 and March 1 at the invitation of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China.

This visit is organised under a continuation of a reciprocal Legal Study Visit programme agreed between the AGC and the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China and implemented in 1987 to promote and strengthen contacts between legal officials in the AGC and their counterparts in China. A delegation from the Ministry of Justice last visited Hong Kong under the programme in April last year.