BASIC LAW (126)
Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
12.7.85 (cont'd)
Statements/Comments by others
Basic Law drafting committee member Maria Tam: People invited to
sit on the Basic Law consultative committee should have a deep appreciation of HK's free enterprise economy. Those sectors of the community not represented on the drafting committee will be included on the consultative committee.
Regional Council chairman
Cheung Yan-lung: The
Basic Law, a Chinese
affair, should not be
discussed in the Regional Council.
(report) Sources:
Governor Sir Edward Youde
said the Basic Law
consultative committee needs not register but will still be a legal organisation. The Governor made the verbal promise at a phone call with HK members of the Basic Law drafting
committee who made the call when the drafting
committee held its first meeting in Peking.