Central gov't decides to institute advisers to Committee for Safeguarding National Security of Macao SAR

BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese central government has decided that the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) shall have a national security affairs adviser and three national security technical advisers.

The Chinese central government made the decision in a reply dated Nov. 30 to the chief executive of the Macao SAR, concerning a report he filed on proposing that the central government set up posts of national security affairs adviser and national security technical adviser in the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao SAR.

In the reply, the central government said it approved the report and decided that the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao SAR shall have one national security affairs adviser and three national security technical advisers.

The post of national security affairs adviser should be taken by the director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR. The national security technical advisers should be relevant personnel of the Liaison Office, according to the reply.

The national security affairs adviser shall be in charge of supervising, guiding, coordinating, and supporting the Macao SAR in safeguarding national security, it added.

The duties of the national security technical adviser include assisting the national security affairs adviser and advising on matters pertaining to the duties and functions of the office of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao SAR.

The national security affairs adviser shall sit in on meetings of the Committee, and the national security technical advisers shall sit in on meetings of the office of the Committee.

The reply also said the chief executive of the Macao SAR shall revise relevant regulations of the SAR in accordance with relevant provisions of the Basic Law of the Macao SAR as well as the reply.