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Secretary for Trade and Industry (Cont'd)
Hong Kong's participation in the Pacific Economic Cooperation
Conference (PECC)
1989. At the Canberra Ministerial, it was left that the participation of Hong Kong, China and Taiwan should be addressed in the next Ministerial to be held in Singapore in mid-1990. The Hong Kong Government has all along indicated a clear interest in joining APEC, given its status and active role on the GATT, its importance as a separate economic entity and as an integral party of the regional economy and the fact that Hong Kong's participation would be well within Hong Kong's commercial autonomy enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong's Future.
Hong Kong is keen to join. the Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference
(PECC). To this end, a Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation is being set up. Participation in PECC will help underline Hong Kong's autonomy in conducting its external
The Executive Council decided, at its meeting on 27 February 1990, that Hong Kong should set up, as soon as practicable, a Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation to coordinate Hong Kong's input to PECC's work and to seek full membership of PECC. The Chinese authorities will be
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