Hong Kong Financial Secretary to Visit Europe for Terrorism Financing Talks

Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po will travel to Europe for five days beginning Monday to discuss Hong Kong's efforts against terrorism financing and to attract capital and business to the city. The trip was announced on Sunday. It follows recent diplomatic activity involving the United States and Russia.

Chan is scheduled to attend a ministerial conference in Paris on countering the financing of terrorism. He will then travel to Brussels to meet European Union officials and corporate leaders. "Amid geopolitical turbulence, these dialogues will inject stability into the global landscape and create a more favourable environment for Hong Kong to strengthen its external ties," the finance chief wrote in his Sunday blog.

" Hong Kong has been listed by the Financial Action Task Force as the first Asia-Pacific jurisdiction to achieve compliance in counterterrorism financing.