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SYSTEM' POLICY AS THIS WOULD SPEED UP ECONOMIC REFORMS AND SAFEGUARD HK'S STABILITY AND PROSPERITY. A PEOPLE'S DAILY COMMENTARY (13.3) STRESSED THAT THE ADVISERS DID NOT REPRESENT A SECOND POWER BASE AND THAT IT HELPED IMPROVE SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS.
REMARKS BY CHINESE OFFICIALS
5. LU PING SAID THE CHINESE WELCOMED VIEWS ON HK/MACAU REPRESENTATIVES TO THE NPC FOR THE NEXT TERM IN 1993. HE SAID THE CHINESE WOULD SEEK AND LISTEN TO VIEWS FROM VARIOUS SECTORS PRIOR TO SELECTION. AS THE NEW TERM WOULD GO BEYOND 1997, HE HOPED MORE YOUNG PEOPLE COULD BECOME REPRESENTATIVES (12.3).
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CHINESE OFFICIALS HAD COMMENTED ON HK'S LAW AND ORDER SITUATION. LU PING WAS UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE SAID THAT THE CHINESE SIDE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HK'S CRIME SITUATION, IN PARTICULAR ROBBERIES AND THE INFLOW OF FIREARMS. HE SAID BOTH SIDES SHOULD CO-OPERATE ON THE MATTER. MR LU'S DEPUTY CHEN ZIYIN GAVE AN
ASSURANCE THAT HK POLICE OFFICERS WHO PERFORMED THEIR DUTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW TO ENSURE HK'S STABILITY AND PROSPERITY SHOULD NOT FEAR REPRISAL. A VICE-DIRECTOR OF THE NCNA HK BRANCH, QIN WENJUN, ALSO CALLED ON THE HK POLICE TO STAY AND WORK FOR THE HK SAR AFTER 1997.
A DELEGATION OF THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL FEDERATION RETURNED TO HK AFTER VISITING PEKING (16.3). DELEGATION LEADER VINCENT LO CLARIFIED THAT LU PING DID NOT INDICATE THAT THERE SHOULD BE BRITISH-STYLE PARTY POLITICS IN HK. MR LO QUOTED MR LU AS SAYING THAT THE BL HAD RESTRICTED THAT HK WOULD NOT ADOPT BRITISH-STYLE PARTY POLITICS. MR LO CONFIRMED MR LU HAD SAID DIRECT ELECTIONS COULD LEAD TO EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL PARTIES BUT MR LU HAD YET NO CONCRETE IDEAS ON HOW THIS SHOULD DEVELOP IN HK. MR LO SAID THAT MR LU HAD ENCOURAGED PEOPLE FROM THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SECTOR TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO GROUPS TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS.
QIAN QICHEN
8. THE FOREIGN SECRETARY'S INTERVIEW WITH RTHK WAS PICKED UP BY MANY PAPERS (11.3). MR HURD SAID HE HAD MADE IT CLEAR TO VISITING CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER QIAN QICHEN THAT CHINESE AND BRITISH VIEWS ON HK ISSUES SHOULD BE RAISED AT THE JLG AND NOT VIA THE MEDIA (11.3). MR HURD OBTAINED A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING FROM MR QIAN
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