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I already have a long list

supplementary questions.

I

HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT

of Members who wish to ask

shall give as many Members as possible a chance to speak,

but if I have many more requests I shall have to draw a

line at some point.

MR. ANDREW WONG : Sir, considering the widespread public

interest in the idea of staging an Expo in Hong Kong in

1997, will Government assure this Council that the

community will be involved in its feasibility study, and

will the Government inform this Council OE its first

thoughts as to how the community is to be involved in the

feasibility study?

SECRE TARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND

Sir, at this preliminary stage, the

investigated are basic issues which relate

planning, infrastructural

INFORMATION

issues being

to strategic

constraints, and So on and SO

forth, and which fall within the government's ambit. Once

these issues have been clarified, it is our intention to

involve the private sector.

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