Hong Kong leader C.Y. Leung to skip Beijing economic seminar for court case on localist lawmakers’ Legco oaths, source says
Leung had been expected to lead a team of senior officials to attend the 20th Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium, which opens on Thursday
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has dropped plans to fly to Beijing to meet mainland officials at an annual conference on economic cooperation to spare time to handle the court case over the two localist lawmakers who spoiled their Legislative Council oaths, it is understood.
Leung had been expected to lead a team of senior officials to attend the 20th Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium, which opens on Thursday.
But in a government announcement on Monday, it was disclosed that Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Professor Chan Ka-keung and Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Greg So Kam-leung would represent the Hong Kong government at the two-day event.
Hong Kong’s No 2 and No 3 officials, John Tsang Chun-wah and Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, will also be absent.
Leung has in recent years led senior officials to the annual event, except in 2014 when it was led by Lam, who is chief secretary.
