The Chief Sec­re­tary has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed full de­tails on the radar sys­tem be­ing in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

He has al­so asked for a ded­i­cat­ed meet­ing with Cab­i­net min­is­ters and state agen­cies to ex­plain the scope and pur­pose of the project, af­ter con­firm­ing he was not briefed be­fore the Prime Min­is­ter dis­closed it pub­licly.

In a state­ment on Fri­day, the Of­fice of the Chief Sec­re­tary said Unit­ed States per­son­nel have al­ready be­gun work on a radar in­stal­la­tion in­tend­ed to “en­hance sur­veil­lance ca­pa­bil­i­ty,” but not­ed that Far­ley Au­gus­tine be­came aware of the de­vel­op­ment on­ly af­ter com­plet­ing a live in­ter­view on Thurs­day night. The re­lease said he learnt of the mat­ter “on­ly af­ter” the Prime Min­is­ter an­nounced it.