Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
25.7.85 (cont'd)
26.7.85
BASIC LAW (151)
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
Statements/Comments
by others
Ta Kung Pao: Legco and DB members, being parts of the HK community, should take part in the discussion and consultation over the Basic Law, which has a bearing on the future of all HK people. Their participation will be welcomed and importance will be attached to their
views.
drafting but the discussions need not necessarily take place at the boards' meetings.
HK drafting member Louis Cha (interview with Ming Pao): The fear of the possibility of "Peking people ruling HK" was raised at the Basic Law drafting committee's
group discussion sessions. An HK member proposed that the "doctrine of prohibition" be adopted, meaning that the Basic Law should state clearly that Peking must not interfere with
HK affairs. The director of the State Council's HK and Macau Affairs Office, Ke Zaishuo, said the same point was raised during the Peking talks on HK's future. Both sides agreed to take a positive approach to the question by stating in Annex II to the Joint Declaration that laws enacted by the SAR legislature which are