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Exchange of Notes or PRC declaration.
There would be
no
need to include those multilateral treatles
to which the
the SAR.
PRC is a party (referred to in para 3(1) above), simply in order to secure their continued application to
However in the Interests of clarity and completeness they
Also all in the list. Included in
the should be
establishing
International
organisations
treatles
in whose
a
two
activities the SAR was to continue to participate would need to be put on the list (whether or not the PRC was party to them). So too would each treaty which the sides have already agreed, or may in future agree, should continue to apply to Hong Kong after 1997.
6.
The three great advantages of option (c) and (d) over (a) and (b) in para 3(2) above are
(1)
all
the
and
that there would be greater clarity and certainty
about
rights International
obligations which, having applied with advantage
to continue to apply to
to Hong Kong, were
SAR;
the
(ii) that either of them would considerably reduce the
diplomatic effort required by
because many of the
unlikely to
be
the two sides,
on the items
the list would be
by challenged
the
other
therefore no further
governments concerned, and
specific action would need to be taken with those
governments in respect of those items; and
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