HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
香港立法局—————————一九八九年七月五日
5 July 1989
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Despite the fact that the FAC report is disappointing in a number of important respects, many of its views are worthy of further and careful study, such as the recommendation given on the various aspects of the draft Basic Law and interpretation of the Basic Law regarding our judicial system and our political structure leading up to 1997. Briefly, in dealing with the nationality issue, insufficient weight and support was being given to the strength and justness of our conviction that the right of abode should be restored to all BDTC passport holders. The moral case in support of our just claim has been inadequately presented, so has the related issue of the confidence crisis here in Hong Kong. The confidence issue has become more crucial and imporatant since the 4 June tragic event.
Against the background of the recent visit by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and his intimation on the issue of right of abode and the related confidence crisis in Hong Kong, we, the people of Hong Kong must not be deflected from the equally and perhaps more important task for Hong Kong to form and establish as democratic a system and framework of government administration as possible to replace the existing British administration.
Parallel with this objective should be our determination to maintain our investment aims related to our long-term programmes in the fields of education, training, health, social affairs as well as our long-term investment and our aim to improve our overall infrastructures so that we can do all we can to shape the future prosperity for this territory and provide a promising future for those who are willing to stay behind irrespective of their race, colour and creed as well as creating investment opportunities for our local and overseas investors. This would then provide additional opportunities and thereby attract the professional talents who would have left Hong Kong to return here.
Sir, with these remarks, I support the motion.
譚王䓪鳴議員致辭:主席先生,對於英國外交事務委員會所發表的香港報告書,未能就香港人最 逼切關注的國籍法問題,提出即時而有效的具體措施。本人和許多香港的市民一樣,感到非常失 望。
外交事務委員會的報告書,雖然在某些方面提出了一些可取的建議;但在國籍法的問題上,則 始終迴避英國作為宗主國的責任,對於急切需要解決的信心問題,也没有提出正面而積極的建議
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報告書內重覆提到英國政府對香港負有「獨特的責任」;袛可惜,從報告書提出的一些建議內 容,我們卻無從找到實質承擔這項獨特責任的憑據。