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APPENDIX II
CONFIDENTIAL
CCC DECLARATIONS
(a) United Kingdom Declaration
I am instructed by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to declare that Hong Kong, being a separate customs terrritory for the formal conduct of whose
diplomatic relations the United Kingdom is responsible, is
autonomous in the conduct of its external commercial relations.
United Kingdom accordingly proposes that, in accordance with Article
II(A)(ii) of the Convention establishing a Customs Cooperation
Council, Hong Kong should be admitted to the Council as a separate
member.
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(b) Hong Kong Declaration
I am instructed to refer to Article II(A)(ii) of the Convention
establishing a Customs Cooperation Council, and to the communication which the British Embassy in Brussels has today addressed to the
Secretary General of the Council, and to confirm that Hong Kong
wishes to be admitted to the Council as a separate member.
(c) PRC Declaration
I am i
instructed by
to refer to the Convention
establishing a Customs Cooperation Council, to the Joint Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the question of Hong Kong, signed in Beijing on 19 December 1984, and to the communications which the British Embassy
in Brussels has today addressed to the Secretary General of the
Council. In accordance with the Joint Declaration Hong Kong will,
on 1 July 1997, become a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, and will continue to be a separate customs territory and to possess the same degree of autonomy as present in the conduct of its external commercial relations. The Government of the People's Republic of China considers that these
arrangements will not alter the status of the territory in the
Council.
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