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九龍東區扶輪社
ROTARY CLUB OF KOWLOON EAST
FRE'S RELEASE
Consitutional Changes and The Future of Hong Kong
Gentlemen,
As early as April 1982, the Reform Club took back to
London certain proposals as to the position after the New
Territories Lease ends in 1997.
These were on the basis that
whilst the British Government acknowledged that after 1997
Hong Kong would cease to be a British colony, the Chinese
Government would undertake to permit the Government of Hong
Kong to remain, more or less in status quo, for another 20
years and thereafter until it gave 10 years notice. Much
water has flown under the bridge of Hong Kong, British and
Chinese relations since then in respect to this question.
particular we have become convinced that those proposals, as
then framed, are not and will not be acceptable to the
Chinese Government. We have therefore modified our proposals
on the future of Hong Kong, into two stages.
In
Stage 1 is to agree on overall general principles.
There are suggested as:
(1)
A declaration that the whole of Hong Kong will
no longer be a colony after, say, 1997. In
other words, the British Government will
relinquish its claim to sovereignty over Hong
Kong Island and Kowloon after 30th June, 1997.
(2)
To make Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and
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