Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
BASIC LAW (34)
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
Statements/Comments
by others
17.2.86 (cont'd)
18.2.86
BLCC secretary general Mao Junnian: The BLCC is likely to endorse member Xu Ximen's suggestion for the formation of a forum group so that members can exchange their views on the Basic Law in the form of seminars and debates.
Tin Tin Daily News: It disagrees with suggestions that a blueprint of the Basic Law should be worked out and given to the HK Government for reference in carrying out political reforms during the transition. Such a suggestion, if adopted, will reduce the HK Government to a lame duck administration.
Chairman of the third
group of BLCC members studying the Basic Law's structure Cheung
Yau-kai: Some members believe that the Basic Law should devote a
special chapter to
define the relationship between the future SAR and the central government.
Chairman of the fourth group of BLCC members studying the structure of the Basic Law Dr Edward Chen: Some members assert that even if in future the NPC or its standing committee will have the right to amend the Basic Law, any amendment must have the consent of the people of HK first. Some proposed that the SAR chief
executive should automatically become an NPC delegate.
The HK Economic Journal: Reliable sources said Senior Unofficials of