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3.
The
United
Kingdom and the PRC have alteady
agreed that the Covenant as applied to Hong Kong should
to apply to the Hong Kong SAR after 30 June 1997.
The Joint Declaration contains the following text :
continue
The provisions of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights and the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
as applied to Hong Kong shall remain in force'
(last paragraph of Section XIII of Annex I to the
Joint Declaration).
Nevertheless
British
the Chinese side may find it helpful if the
side were to set out further background and details
on how the Covenant applies in practice to Hong Kong.
Article 28 of the Covenant
provides for the
(the
Human Rights Committee
There is а requirement for reports to be
Secretary-General of the United Nations,
4.
establishment
of
a
"Committee").
submitted to the
for transmission
to
the Committee, on the measures that
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