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SOMETIMES CREATED PROBLEMS, HAD SEEMED WARY OF THE PROPOSAL TO CREATE A NEW POST IN THIS FIELD. GASPAR HAD THE IMPRESSION THAT THE CHINESE MIGHT WISH TO PUT FORWARD A CANDIDATE OF THEIR OWN, BUT THIS HAD NOT BEEN RAISED IN TERMS.
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4 THE PORTUGUESE WERE PREPARED TO MAKE AN EARLY MOVE TO ESTABLISH
''COURTS OF SECOND INSTANCE''
AND,
BY DRAWING ON THE NEW JUDGES THUS
CREATED A COURT OF APPEAL AS WELL. THE CHINESE COULD AGREE ON THE FIRST, BUT NOT ON THE COURT OF APPEAL UNTIL THAT ISSUE HAD BEEN
SETTLED IN THE CASE OF HONG KONG.
5.
THERE WAS DISCUSSION IN THE JLG OF
'LOCALISATION OF EMPLOYMENT' WITH THE PORTUGUESE DEFENDING AGAINST. FINALLY A COMPLICATED FORMULA WAS AGEED WHICH PERMITS AN INCREASE FOR THE CHINESE BUT DOES NOT
ACTUALLY SAY THEY ARE MOVING IN.
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ON LOCALISATION OF LANGUAGE' A DECREE IS TO BE APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR DECLARING CHINESE AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN MACAU. FOR THEIR PART, THE CHINESE ARE PREPARED TO EMBODY THE CONTINUATION OF PORTUGUESE AS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN THE NEW BASIC LAW (THE FIRST DRAFT OF WHICH WILL NOT BE COMPLETED UNTIL LATE 1990). THIS WAS DISCUSSED ONLY ON AN INFORMAL BASIS: THE QUID PRO QUO BEING UNSPOKEN BUT CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD.
7 GASPAR NOTED THAT THE PORTUGUESE TEAM WHICH HAD SO FAR BEEN INVOLVED WITH MACAU WAS ABOUT TO SUFFER SEVERAL CHANGES. AMBASSADOR SIMOES COELHO WILL GO TO BRUSSELS (REPRESENTATIVE TO THE COMMISSION). HIS REPLACEMENT WILL PROBABLY BE LUIS CATARINO, FORMERLY CONSUL IN HONG KONG AND NOW SECONDED TO THE COMMISSION IN BRUSSELS. ANTONIO VITORINO WILL GO TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. GOVERNOR MELANCIA'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISER PEREIRA GOMES, NOW IN GENEVA, HAS NOT YET BEEN REPLACED. GASPAR HIMSELF WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP AN INTEREST IN THE JLG BUT NOW DROPS (WITH A SIGH OF RELIEF) QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF MACAU.
8. LASTLY, GASPAR WISHED TO ENCOURAGE FURTHER DISCREET LIAISON BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND THE UK ON MACAU/HONG KONG, SUGGESTING THAT THE JLG REPRESENTATIVE IN MACAU, JOAO DEUS RAMOS CA CAREER DIPLOMAT WHO HAS SERVED IN PEKING) MIGHT BE A NATURAL CONTACT FOR DOUG MARTIN (LATE OF THIS EMBASSY).
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