TNAG-2829-FCO40-4082-Hong-Kong-Guangdong-nuclear-power-station--Daya-Bay--China-1993 — Page 144

25-AUG-1993 12:00

BRITISH EMBASSY PEKING

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the plant has started, and the commissioning date for the first reactor is in November. However agreement on safety

Failure co-operation arrangements has not yet been reached.

to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement soon would be most

We hope that the Hong Kong damaging to public confidence.

and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council can intervene with the relevant authorities to facilitate such agreement, in the first instance by an early resumption of the discussions betwen the relevant Hong Kong and Guangdong

authorities.

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