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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987
HK MUST MAINTAIN CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS
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GIVEN ITS EXTREME VULNERABILITY TO
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES, HONG OTHER TERRITORIES OR
KONG MUST MAINTAIN A CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN ITS ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STABILITY, DR THE HON HO KAM-FAI TOLDTHE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING ON THE HON MARTIN
LEE'S MOTION ON FILM CENSORSHIP OF EXPRESSION WAS
REGULATIONS 1987, DR HO SAID THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM NOT AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT.
"IT IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS REGARD TO PUBLIC INTEREST,
AND MUST HAVE PROPER
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HE SAID.
DR HO SAID
THE
QUESTION
ΤΟ AS
WHETHER
OR
NOT
POLITICAL OPINION
ANY
"GOOD THE CONTRAVENED THE WAS BEST AND FOREIGN SIGNATORY OF ALLEGATION OF
RELATIONS" CLAUSE OF THE FILM CENSORSHIP REGULATIONS INTERNATIONAL
AND COVENANT ON
RIGHTS CIVIL THE LEGAL
OF THE ΤΟ REFERENCE ASSESSED BY COMMONWEALTH OFFICE, BECAUSE THE UNITED KINGDOM BEING A THE COVENANT, WOULD HAVE THE OBLIGATION TO DEFEND BREACH.
"THE OPINION OF FCO IS THAT THE INCONSISTENT WITH, OR IN VIOLATION OF,
HE FURTHER POINTED
OUT
'GOOD RELATIONS' CLAUSE IS THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT.
ON
NOT
FILM
COMPARABLE PROVISIONS THAT GROUNDS EXISTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES
CENSORSHIP ON "GOOD RELATIONS" WHICH WERE PARTY TO THE COVENANT.
RIGHTS AND THE HUMAN
CASES THAT
STATE ΤΟ TAKE
DR HO SAID THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION HAD RULED IN PREVIOUS DECIDED WAS ENTITLED TO A "MARGIN OF APPRECIATION" AND WAS PERMITTED INTO ACCOUNT THE PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES
NECESSARY
SECURITY"
A
IN
FOR
OR
OF
ACHIEVING THE GOALS "RESPECT
THE
OF
"PUBLIC
DETERMINING ORDER",
WHAT WAS "NATIONAL
RIGHTS
OR
REPUTATION
OF
OTHERS",
SPECIFIED IN ARTICLE 19(3) OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT.
FILM FOR ITS BAN ON
HE ALSO ADDED THAT UNDER HONG KONG EXHIBITION IN A CINEMA
AUTOMATICALLY
TELEVISION.
WOULD
LAW, BANNING IN RESULT
A
THE ABSENCE
GROUNDS IN THE PRESS
"IN VIEW OF THE PERVASIVE INFLUENCE OF TELEVISION, OF CENSORING RESTRICTIONS ON 'GOOD RELATIONS' AND IN OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA SHOULD NOT LEAD TO SIMILAR RESTRICITIONS ON FILMS AND TELEVISION, BARENDT, ON WHOSE OPINION MR MARTIN LEE IN
DR HO SAID. HIS RESOLUTION IN THIS COUNCIL,
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THE ARGUMENT AGAINST AS IMPLIED BY MR ERIC PART RELIED WHEN MOVING
A
SPECIFIED ATTAINING INTERNATIONAL COVENANT,
ENACT THE LAW ON
"IN MY VIEW, ONCE A LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR IS SATISFIED THAT
IS NECESSARY FOR CERTAIN PIECE OF LEGISLATION SOCIAL GOALS AND IS NOT INCOMPATIBLE WITH AN HE SHOULD TAKE A DECISION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO THE BASIS OF THE GREATEST INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY.
ON THESE GROUNDS, DR HO SAID, HE OPPOSED THE
BY MR LEE.
RESOLUTION MOVED
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