RESTRICTED
ANNEX A TO
D/DCts (R)/259/15 DATED 18 DEC 89
CBF HONG KONG's VISIT TO UK
JAN/FEB 90
OUTLINE PROGRAMME
Mon 29 Jan 90
Tue 30 Jan 90
Thu 1 Feb 90
Fri 2 Feb 90
0600 CBF arrives
LHR
1200-1230
Office Call:
CGS
(Lunch with CGS)
HONG KONG STEERING
GROUP
CGS
MEETING
CONFERENCE
1000
1300
1130-1200
Office Call:
HR 27
ACGS
Free
(Lunch with
ACDS (0))
1445-1545
Office Call:
ACDS (0)
[1515-1545 Joined by:
AD (SE) Mr Howard ROW 3b]
1600-1630
Office Call: CNS
1400-1430
Office Call: Hd Sec (0) (C)
1500-1545 FCO (Hd of Hong Kong Dept - Mr Alan Paul)
1600-1645
1545-1615
Office Call:
CDS
-
Hong
Kong Government
(Commissioner
Mr John Yaxley)
Notes:
1.
CGS Conference also on Wed 31 Jan 89.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
HKIS 026/15
London SW1A 2AH
SK Pooley Esq
Office of Arts and Libraries
Horse Guards Road
London SW1P 3AL
Telephone 01-
Your reference
Our reference
Date
11 December 1989
Dose Mor Forday,
VISIT OF HONG KONG SECRETARY FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, 20 DECEMBER 1989
1.
Thank you for your letter of 5 December to Christopher Wood. I enclose a background brief on Hong Kong which I hope will meet your need.
2. One area which the Hong Kong visitors may be interested to discuss is the role of the Arts Council and policy towards the visual arts. Hong Kong has a Council for the Performing Arts, and is considering how to extend support to the visual arts.
sincerely. Licks as Kunna
N Cannon
Hong Kong Department
SUYALO
HONG KONG: BACKGROUND BRIEF
Joint Declaration
BUSABO
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92% of Hong Kong's land area is held on a 99 year lease that will expire on 1 July 1997, whereupon it will revert to Chinese sovereignty. The remaining 8% could never be viable on its own. it has long been recognised that Hong Kong would be returned to China in 1997. In 1982 when negotiations between Britain and China began the fear was that China would simply reabsorb Hong Kong and that Hong Kong's distinct way of life would come to an end. What Britain achieved in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 was
agreement on very specific arrangements for Hong Kong's future for at least 50 years after 1997, as a separate entity with its own way
of life intact.
Under the agreement Hong Kong will have its own government, comprising Hong Kong people, not people brought in from China; the socialist system and socialist policies will not be imposed on Hong Kong from China; Hong Kong's capitalist system and way of life will continue, with all its human rights and freedoms, its laws and its
legal system, its own freely convertible currency, its financial markets and its free port.
The Joint Declaration was welcomed in 1984 both in Hong Kong and internationally, as the best achievable basis for a secure future
for Hong Kong. The people of Hong Kong continue to regard the Joint Declaration as a good agreement. It remains the cornerstone of our policy.
Joint Liaison Group
The main forum for the implementation of the Joint Declaration is
the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (JLG). Its terms of reference
are set out in Annex II of the Joint Declaration. The JLG must meet
at least three times a year alternating between Peking, London and
Hong Kong. Since 1988, both the British and the Chinese
representatives on the JLG have set up permanent offices in Hong
Kong. The thirteenth plenary meeting of the Joint Liaison Group