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Saturday, December 11, 1999, updated at 11:12(GMT+8)
China Macao Handover Ceremony Venue to Be Ready in Three Days

Construction of the Macao handover ceremony venue will be completed by December 13, said Dr.Jorge Rangel, Macao's under-secretary for Public Administration, Education and Youth Affairs, at a press briefing in Macao on December 10.

Dr. Rangel said that the handover ceremony venue, the cost of which exceeds 60 million patacas (7.5 million U.S. dollars), will be ready for the day of the handover, December 20, when China resumes the exercise of sovereignty over Macao. According to weather forecast, December 20 will be a very nice day.

He said that guests from Taiwan will be invited to attend the grand ceremony. The Sino-Portuguese Joint Liaison Group will work on whom to invite.

Security personnel have received longtime training and are very skillful and people's safety is guaranteed in Macao, he said.

Dr. Rangel failed to confirm that some media organizations plan to rent helicopters to cover the handover ceremony live from high above. But Joao Manuel Costa Antunes, coordinator of the handover ceremony, said that a relatively open style of coverage will be permitted.

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