PRESS COMMENTARIES
NON-COMMUNIST PAPERS
FOUR INDEPENDENT PAPERS COMMENTED ON THE DEBATE.
SING PAO, IN AN EDITORIAL HEADED HK PEOPLE HAD LOST THEIR CONFIDENCE OVER THE BREACH OF PROMISE BY LONDON, * SAND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE WAS OBVIOUSLY IN VIOLATION OF THE PLEDGE OF **MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES'' MADE BY MRS THATCHER DURING HER VISIT TO HK TWO YEARS AGO. IF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TOOK THE LEAD N DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE BN (0) PASSPORT, HOW COULD OTHER COUNTRIES BE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE CONVENIENCE FOR TS HOLDERS? RIGHT NOW IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SAY HOW THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF PROMISE WOULD AFFECT HK PEOPLE'S CONFIENCE.
MMNG PAO SAND MR WADDINGTON'S OPENING STATEMENT HAD IN EFFECT REPRESENTED A TOTAL REJECTION OF THE THREE REQUESTS MADE BY UMELCO. FT NOTED THAT ALTHOUGH THE REQUEST FOR AN ENDORSEMENT IN THE BN(0) PASSPORT INDICATING THE HOLDER'S FREEDOM OF ENTRY TO UK WAS LOGICAL, IT WAS NOT QUITE REASONABLE. IT WAS THE DETERMINATION OF BRITAIN TO BLOCK ANY INFLUX OF HK PEOPLE TO THE COUNTRY BECAUSE BRITAIN COULD NOT ABSORB A LARGE NUMBER OF NON-WHITE IMMIGRANTS. VERY FEW HK CHINESE IN FACT WANTED TO SETTLE IN BRITAIN. IT THEREFORE SEEMED UNNECESSARY TO FIGHT FOR SUCH AN ENDORSEMENT. THE BN (0) PASSPORT WAS A DOCUMENT WITH A LIMITED USAGE. THE SCOPE OF ITS USAGE WAS BASICALLY TO BE DECIDED BY THE ISSUING GOVERNMENT.
THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS SAID IT WAS UP TO THE PEOPLE OF HK TO FIGHT FOR THE PROVISION OF TRAVEL CONVENIENCE FOR BN(0) PASSPORT
HOLDERS BY BRITAIN.
THE EXPRESS SAND SEVERAL MPS HAD SPOKEN FOR THE RIGHT OF HK PEOPLE. THEIR SPEECHES SHOWED THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAD IGNORED THE RIGHTS OF HK PEOPLE AND HAD FAILED TO LIVE UP TO TS MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES. THOUGH THE PEOPLE OF HK SHOULD NOT HAVE HIGH HOPES, THEY SHOULD MAKE FURTHER EFFORTS TO FIGHT FOR REASONABLE PROTECTION FOR THEIR RIGHT OF ENTRY TO UK.
COMMUNIST PAPERS
FOUR LEFT-WING PAPERS COMMENTED ON THE COMMONS DEBATE.
A SHORT COMMENTARY N TA KUNG PAO SAID MR WADDINGTON HAD TWISTED THE LOGIC IN THE REASONS HE GAVE FOR REJECTING UMELCO'S THREE REQUESTS. ON THE REQUEST FOR AN ENDORSEMENT OF RIGHT OF ENTRY, PAPER SAND WHAT UMELCO SOUGHT WAS UNOBSTRUCTED ENTRY. THENS HAD
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