BASIC LAW (106)
Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
2.7.85 (cont'd)
3.7.85
Statements/Comments
by others
Drafting committee
chairman Ji Pengfei: HK members should view the drafting process not only from the "two systems" perspective but also from the "one country" perspective. They are accountable not only to HK people but also to NPC and the people of China. The principle of "four
insistence" would not be incorporated into othe Basic Law. (The Four Insistence: Insistence on the socialist course, on Marxism and Mao Zedong thought, on proletariat dictatorship and on the rule by the Chinese Communist Party).
The Federation of Education Workers: HK's political development should be in line with the provisions of the Basic Law.
Source: T.K. Ann is
tipped to be the chairman of the consultative group to collate views on Basic Law drafting.
* Drafting committee member Dorothy Liu: HK members are put into a difficult position because their viewpoint and work procedures are different from those of the Chinese members. The confidentiality rule would render the HK members unable to be
accountable to HK people.
Magazine editor Hu Juren: He disagrees with T.K. Ann's remark that those HK groups which want to join the Basic Law consultative body must