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SEP 25 '86 14:34 GIS HK
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Councillors in new
move over Daya Bay
A GROUP of Legco members, including Martin Lee, would propose at tomorrow's Legco in-house meeting to
to move resolution at a meeting of the council on October 15 to ask the Government to make public relevant information on the safety and economic aspects of the Daya Bay plant, Ming Pao, Sing Tao Jih Pao and the HK Economic Journal reported.
Ming Pao quoted sources as saying that the group of Legco members would ask the Government to make related documents available to Legco members if it refused to make public the documents. If both plans failed, the Legco members would seek to to invoke the Legco Powers and
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Minister on VRs
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VISITING Home Office Minister David Waddington told newsmen during a tour of the Chi Ma Wan closed camp yesterday that repatriation would be the only long-term answer to the Vietnamese refugee problem, the media reported in moderate coverage,
The reports quoted him as saying that no repatriation policy would be implemented until the world could be satisfied that returned
returned refugees would not be persecuted.
Ming Pao reported prominently that fewer VRs in HK would be resettled in the United States because they falled to satisfy the refugee criteria laid down by the country. As a result, the monthly resettlement quots offered by the US had been reduced by 45 per cent with effect from last month.
Privileges Ordinance to press the PUBLICISING BNO
Government to do so.
The three papers, together with a few others, said one of the leaders of the Legco delegation to Paking, Marla Tam, would make verbal report on the Peking visit.
The papers reported that another Legco delegation leader, Allen Lee, would propose to ask China Light to make public the arrangements for buying electricity from the Daya Bay plant and to clarify whether there was a scheme of control оп electricity charges.
In other developments, the chairman of the HKNIC, William Stones, and a managing director of the company, Steven Poon, returned from Peking yesterday after attending the Daya Bay contract signing ceremony on Tuesday.
Mr Stones told reporters at the airport that 10 per cent of the total cost of the US$3.6 billion Daya Bay project would be reserved for contingency purposes.
Legco member Poon Chung-kwong told newsmen after opening a computer exhibition yesterday that as the decision to build the plant could not be reversed, HK people should make sure that the Chinese Government would listen to their views on the safety of the plant,
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THE Principal Assistant Secretary for Security, Lee Lap-sun, in interview with Sing Tao Jih Pao, said that the FCO would soon start coordinating publicity for the new BNO passport.
Mr Leg said that work on persuading third countries
countries to accept the Certificate of Identity would not be launched at the same time. This was because the CI would still be valid for 10 years after 1997.
He said that Britain would be responsible for the detailed publicity work, which would be done through British embassies in various countries. HK would assist by providing explanations to the consulates here.
TALKS ON MACAU
THE Chinese Foreign Minister, Wu Xueqian, met the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Pires de Miranda, at the United Nations' headquarters for talks on the question of Macau's future, the papers reported.
Mr Miranda was satisfied with the smooth progress achieved in the last two rounds of the talks on Macau's future. He added that settlement of the question would benefit Macau's stability and prosperity and strengthen friendly ties between the two countries.
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