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INVOLVED IN DAY-TO-DAY LAND ADMINISTRATION, BUT OF DISCUSSING MATTERS RELATED TO LEASES EXTENDING BEYOND 1997. SUN ADDED THAT SMOOTH PROGRESS DID NOT MEAN THAT THEPE HAD BEEN NO DIVERGENCES OF VIEW, BUT SAID THAT THE CRUCIAL ISSUE WAS HOW DIFFERENCES WERE APPROACHED. THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL QUOTED SOURCES AS SAYING THE THE LC HAD AGREED IN PRINCIPAL THAT PPEMIA ARISING FROM LAND SOLD BEFOPE THE JD CAME INTO FORCE BUT NOT PAID BY THEM WOULD ALL GO TO THE HKG AND WOULD NOT (NOT) BE SHARED.
7. GATT/INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS: THE VISITS OF THE TEAMS LED BY BURROWS AND HO TO PEKING WERE NOTED. RAIDO ONE AND SEVERAL PAPERS SAID THAT BRITAIN AND CHINA WOULD DISCUSS WHETHER TO TURN THE TEAMS INTO STANDING GROUPS TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS OF RESOLVING PROBLEMS INVOLVING HK'S INTERNATIONAL ACREEMENTS AND ITS POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS. THEY WOULD ALSO WORK OUT A LIST OF
PRIORITIES TO BE TACKLED.
8. OTHERS: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN A SPEECH TO MEETING POINT SAID THAT THE PROGRESSIVE LOCALISATION OF ALL LECISLATION AT PRESENT DERIVED FROM THE UK WOULD BE ESSENTIAL, TO FALL IN LINE WITH THE JOINT DECLARATION. THUS BY THE TIME OF THE TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY, HK'S LAWS WOULD BE SELFSTANDING. IT WAS REPORTED THAT LI KASHING, SIP RUN RUN SHAW AND OTHER HAD SET UP A FIRM IN SINGAPORE LAST OCTOBER WITH PEGISTERED CAPITAL OF SING. DOLLARS 100 MILLION. THEY DENIED THE MOVE WAS RELATED TO HK'S POLITICAL FUTURE. CHIAN NEWS SERVICE REPORTED THAT NO CONCRETE ARRANGEMENTS FOR TALKS ON MACAU HAD YET
BEEN MADE.
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9. LU PING/BL: SEVERAL PAPERS WELCOMED THE VISIT BY LU AND HIS DELEGATION AS BENEFITTING COMMUNICATION, AND EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT THEY WOULD LISTEN CAPEFULY TO THE VIEWS OF HK PEOPLE AND WOULD CLAPIFY CHINA'S POLICIES TOWARDS HK. THE EXPRESS WELCOMED LU'S ASSERTION THAT HK PEOPLE RULING HK' AND '50 YEARS NO CHARGE' WOULD BE WRITTEN INTO THE BL IN LEGAL LANGUAGE, BUT ADDED THAT THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW DEPENDED ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES NOT ON THE WAY THE LAW WAS WRITTEN. THE LEFT-WING PRESS DEFENDED LU AGAINST THOSE WHO SAW HIS COMMENTS ON HK PEOPLE RULING HK AS NEGATING THE CONCEPT OR IMPLYING THAT THOSE WHO WOULD RUN HK WOULD BE APPROVED BY PEKING AND WOULD TAKE INSTRUCTIONS FROM PEKING. THE GENERAL LINE WAS THAT LU HAD SAID NO SUCH THING.
10. POLITICAL REFORMS: A COLUMNIST IN ECONOMIC JOURNAL SAID THAT THE CRUCIAL ISSUE WAS NOT THE QUESTION OF DIRECT ELECTIONS, BUT WHETHER THE GOVERNOR AND EXCO REMAINED AS THE REAL POWER CENTFE. HE SAID THAT PEKING CONSIDERED DIRECT ELECTIONS TO LEGCO AND MAKING LEGCO A BODY ABOVE THE GOVERNOP AND EXCO AS A DEVIATION FROM THE JD. HK DAILY NEWS AND FINANCIAL DAILY ALSO SAID THAT IT
ONE VOTE!' WAS CLEAR THAT CHINA DID NOT FAVOUR THE IDEA OF ONE MAN, AND PARTY POLITICS FOR HK, BUT THE LATTER SAID THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM WHICH WOULD BLOCK INTERFERENCE BY
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