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MY TELNO 95: MR MAUDE'S VISIT TO MACAU: CALL ON THE GOVERNOR OF MACAU
1. (ENGINEER) CARLOS MONTEZ MELANCIA WAS APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF MACAU ON 8 JULY 1987.
2. MELANCIA'S SUMMARISED CV IS AS FOLLOWS:
1927 BORN NEAR LISBON
1949 GRADUATED IN ELECTROTECHNIC ENGINEERING
1957 GENERAL DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION OF SOREFAME (A LARGE
PORTUGUESE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.
1976 SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY LATER SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR ECONOMIC CO-ORDINATION IN PORTUGAL'S FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, LATER MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY.
1981 VICE PRESIDENT LATER PRESIDENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL OF
SOREFAME (EQUIVALENT CHAIRMAN OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS), 1983 MINISTER OF SEA LATER MINISTER OF SOCIAL EQUIPMENT 1986 PRESIDENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL OF METALGEST 1987 GOVERNOR OF MACAU
3. MELANCIA CAME TO MACAU AT A DIFFICULT TIME. HIS PREDECESSOR WAS REMOVED AFTER ONLY ONE YEAR AMIDST WIDESPREAD CRITICISM OF CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE. MACAU'S PROBLEMS OF LACK OF LOCALISATION, AN INACTIVE AND CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION AND LITTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALL NEEDED TO BE TACKLED. MELANCIA HAS EMBARKED ON THE AMBITIOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND A NEW PORT. HE HAS INTRODUCED SEPARATE UNDER SECRETARIES OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION TO IMPROVE FACILITIES IN BOTH SPHERES. BUT THERE ARE STILL NO CHINESE AND ONLY ONE MACANESE IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF ADMINISTRATION. MACAU'S LAW IS STILL EXCLUSIVELY PORTUGUESE AND THERE ARE NO CHINESE LAWYERS. MACAU'S BASIC LAW IS STILL IN PRELIMINARY STAGES OF DISCUSSION AND FACES PROBLEMS ON NATIONALITY AND POSSIBLY HUMAN RIGHTS. CORRUPTION IN ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT STILL, AS MELANCIA'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISER PUT IT RECENTLY, OOZES FROM EVERY PORE. MELANCIA'S OWN POSITION IS
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