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acceptable to HMG if the PRC for their part were willing to
acknowledge that the agreed date would not be fixed until a
substantial number of years had passed and that any date
fixed would be such as to allow a transitional period during
which new arrangements for the administration of the
territory as part of the PRC acceptable to a majority of the
inhabitants could be worked out. It is, however, unlikely
to be attractive to the Chinese, because it would not
sufficiently meet their political requirement for tangible
recognition of their sovereignty soon.
lover the whole of Hong Kong) Acknowledgement of Chinese sovereigntyn 1997 coupled with fresh arrangements for full British administration
13.
It might be possible for the UK and the PRC to enter
into arrangements whether by a formal international agree-
ment or otherwise under which the UK would conținue to
administer Hong Kong on the same lines as hitherto and have
power to conduct external relations in respect of Hong Kong
on condition that the UK relinquished its sovereignty over
and recognised themore sovereignty
the ceded parts of the colony when the international lease-
over the whole of Hong Kong
of the New Territories expired
14.
There are many earlier examples of the exercise by
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the UK of jurisdiction in the territory of another state over
Abyssinia, China, Egght, Korea, Morocco, which the UK did not posess sovereignty (eg/Brunei, Tonga,
the Persian Gulf States, the Malay States, Zanzibar) and
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