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Declaration.
To achieve this result, it will be necessary
for the CPG to indicate to all present Contracting Parties , Governments which may become parties before 1 July
and all
1997, that all the international
arising
rights and obligations
from the Convention and the Protocol, to the extent
that they apply to Hong Kong, will be assumed by the CPG with effect from 1 July 1997 and apply to the HKSAR of the
It will further be necessary to ensure so far as possible that those Contracting Parties either agree, or at
In the opinion of the British side, the
PRC.
least acquiesce.
best method for
securing
this objective would be as
described in para. 7 of the paper handed to the Chinese
side on 15 March 1989.
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