MAN IN THE COMMONS SAND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A SMALL NUMBER
OF PEOPLE WHO COULD FIND THEMSELVES IN SEVERE DIFFICULTIES AFTER
1997 AND HAVE THE SUPPORT OF ALL COMMUNITIES IN HONG KONG''. THE
SUNDAY STANDARD SAND CHINA AND BRITAIN WOULD BE EXAMINING THE
DEFINITION OF RESIDENTS' THE JOINT DECLARATION WHICH WOULD
HAVE A BEARING ON THE RIGHT OF ABODE FOR NON-CHINESE AFTER 1997. FOREIGNERS WERE CONCERNED AS TO WHETHER THEY WOULD QUALIFY FOR THE HONG KONG SAR PERMANENT ID CARDS WHICH SPECIFIED THE RIGHT
OF ABODE AN HONG KONG. AS CHINESE NATIONALITY LAW DID NOT PERMIT A CHINESE TO HAVE DUAL NATIONALITY, THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF LOCAL CHINESE HOLDING FOREIGN PASSPORTS WHO ALSO HAD THIS CONCERN.
6. MACAU'S FUTURE: A JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AFTER THE FIRST ROUND
OF TALKS ON MACAU'S FUTURE HELD IN PEKING SAND THE TWO DAY TALKS
WERE CONDUCTED IN A FRIENDLY AND CORDRAL ATMOSPHERE. THE TWO SHDES
HAD REACHED AN AGREEMENT ON THE GENERAL AGENDA FOR THE TALKS AND HAD
EXCHANGED VIEWS ON SOME MATTERS OF SUBSTANCE. PORTUGAL PRESIDENT
DR. MARIO SOARES HAD HSSUED AN INSTRUCTION STATING THAT DR. JOAQUIM PINTO MACHADO, THE GOVERNOR OF MACAU, WOULD HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO SIGN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS WITH OVERSEAS COUNTRIES, SING PAO
REPORTED. THIS MOVE WAS AIMED AT RAPSING MACAU'S INTERNATIONAL
STATUS. YU ZHIZHONG OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SAND THAT
THE QUESTION OF MACAU PEOPLE RUNNING MACAU'' HAD NOT BEEN
DISCUSSED AT THE FIRST ROUND OF TALKS. ALEXANDRE HO, MEMBER OF THE
MACAU LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PROPOSED TO THE ASSEMBLY THAT A COMMITTEE
BE SET UP TO STUDY THE TALKS ON MACAU'S FUTURE.
7. DAYA BAY: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CHINA'S HONG KONG AND MACAU AFFAIRS
OFFICE, L HOU, SAID HE WOULD COMPILE A REPORT ON HONG KONG BLDC
MEMBERS'S VIEWS ON THE DAY BAY PROJECT FOR SUBMISSION TO THE RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS OF THE STATE COUNCIL. SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MR. YAXLEY, WAS QUOTED BY SING TAO JIH PAO AS SAYING THAT GOVERNMENT HAD NO PLANS FOR DIRECT DIALOGUE WITH CHINA ON THE PROJECT AT THIS STAGE. HE RULED OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THE SUBJECT BEING DISCUSSED BY THE JLG,
8. OTHERS: WEN WER PO SAID TODAY THAT CHINA WOULD APPLY TO REJOIN GATT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS MONTH. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NCNA HONG KONG BRANCH CHEN BOJHAN SAID IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MING PAO THAT AFTER 1997 NCNA WOULD ONLY BE INVOLVED IN PROVIDING A NEWS SERVICE AND WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE TO NCNA HEADQUARTERS IN PEKING. THE APPOINTMENT
OF TWO ELECTED LEGCO UNOFFICIALS TO EXCO WERE A POLITICAL GESTUPE BY THE GOVERNOR TO SHOW THE IMPORTANCE HE PLACED ON INDIRECTLY ELECTED COUNCILLORS, STEPHEN TANG CHINESE UNIVERSITY LECTURER TOLD MING PAO EVENING NEWS. DR. CHIE HIN-KWONG SAND THEIR APPOINTMENT
WAS YET ANOTHER STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT.
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