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ensure that the Basic Law properly reflects
the provisions of the Joint Declaration. In
most respects it does, often including those
provisions verbatim. It is on the whole an
encouraging first draft. But certainly there
are some important points that need further
work. We are pursuing these with the Chinese.
Monckton does not mention the Sino-British
Joint Liaison Group. That is the forum where
Britain and China discuss the implementation
of the Joint Declaration. It has settled many
important points since it started work three
years ago, such as separate membership for
Hong Kong in the GATT, separate Air Services
Agreements for Hong Kong, travel documents for