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An area of the premises between the outer and inner wall was in use for chopping wood and provided work for a small number of prisoners.

The bloodiest incident was the attack of Mr KO Keung-wah, the Resident Representative of Shung Ching San Tsuen in Shap Pat Heung on the eve of the election.

While the Water Supplies Department strongly insists that there are no problems with his water meter and that he has to pay the bill, this elderly pledges that he will definitely not pay it.

Doubt No.3: In the media session conducted by the Secretary for Security, she began her analysis right from the local submissions received, and mentioned nothing about the 3,812 non-local submissions involving 29,099 signatures.

Yet, the Chief Secretary vowed at that time he would not betray the interests of Hong Kong people, saying he had been drinking Hong Kong's water and the blood of Hong Kong people was flowing in his body.

On one occasion (14.40 hours) the delegation arrived to find no guard at the outer gate and no guards visible on duty in the area between the inner and outer walls; the only people in view were a few prisoners chopping wood in the area between the outer and inner walls.

On the issue of duty on alcoholic beverages, as a number of Members have said, when the representatives of the alcoholic beverage trade lobbied us, I tried to be strict before being generous by questioning them personally if, should the Government reduce the duty, they would lower the sale prices accordingly.

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies; and the organization of international forums to discuss biological risk management in relation to food and agriculture.

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s plan to materialize Vision 2030: strengthening the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the education system through EMIS; enhancing the education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; improving the quality of education for peace programme; and strengthening literacy development through advocacy and technical support to strategic planning.

Gambia also reported that it continues in collaborate to deliver mine risk education in communities in the affected areas and has a well trained and fully equipped humanitarian demining team which is always ready to respond to any emergencies.

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

Members will recall that when we initially endorsed the measure to reduce the duty, everyone was very happy and hoped that there would be a reduction in wine prices.

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Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

We do not know how we can believe them again in future. In future, if they lobby us again for a duty reduction, vowing adamantly that consumers would be benefited, it would be very difficult for us to believe them again.

In a meeting held by the Panel on Manpower, he pledged that proposals would be put forth upon the completion of the review at the end of last year, and yet, it is said in the Budget that proposals would be put forth upon the completion of the review at the end of this year.

I wish to ask the Secretary: Given that the staff of FEHD is so smart, why some places can be better managed where "wild drinking" does not exist and the residents living upstairs are free from disturbances, while others have been incessantly suffering from such disturbances for three to four years?