W K Lam, secretary for home affairs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), will lead a delegation to a United Nations (UN) hearing of the Hong Kong SAR report under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) next month.
The hearing will take place in Geneva on April 27 and 30.
A Home Affairs Bureau spokesman said they would answer questions put to them by members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the treaty monitoring body for the ICESCR.
"The report was written by the Hong Kong SAR government, taking full account of the views expressed by interested parties and members of the public in response to consultations held in 1998, before the drafting work began," the spokesman said.
"To ensure that the U.N. received a balanced picture of the situation here, we invited representatives of the committee to visit Hong Kong. They did so in January this year and met legislators, non-governmental organizations, and interested members of the general public as well as the chief executive, the secretary for administration and policy secretaries," the spokesman added.
(People's Daily 03/26/2001)
