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INVITATION TO ATTEND A PRESS CONFERENCE

PLACE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL OFFICE

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DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1993

TIME: 2.30PM

Press release embargoed for 12th March, 2.30pm.

180 GOVERNMENTS ARE GOING TO THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS, June 1993.

BUT WILL HONG KONG GOVERNMENT BE THERE?

The United Nations World Conference on Human Rights (WCHR) the biggest conference to be held on human rights in 25 years is taking place in Vienna, Austria in June and 180 of the world's governments will attend.

With just three months to go before this historical event, the human rights organisation Amnesty International today asked the Hong Kong Government what it involvement will be.

"Preparation must start now”, Amnesty International