THE Government will not pursue details of a proposal by Zhuhai authorities to build a bridge linking the Special Economic Zone with Hongkong because the project is a local level decision.
The Secretary for Transport, Mr Michael Leung Man-kin, said in response to questions from legislators that the Hongkong Government would not raise the matter through formal channels.
Nor would the matter be on the agenda of meetings of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (JLG) or border talks, he said.
''I do not think it appropriate to raise this matter at the JLG meeting,'' said Mr Leung.
The Government would not say why Zhuhai announced the plan before discussion with Hongkong.
He said the Government's knowledge of the plan was confined to what it had learned through press reports.
''We have not yet raised the issue because, as we understood from press reports, it was only a local level issue,'' said Mr Leung.