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FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 621
OF 210935Z APRIL 93
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
INFO PRIORITY
UKREP JLG HONG KONG
CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: PRESS REPORTS
LU PING
1. IN MEETING A DELEGATION OF BUSINESSMEN FROM HONG KONG YESTERDAY (20 APRIL), LU PING SAID THAT THE CHINESE HAD NO BOTTOMLINE DURING THE COMING TALKS. IF THERE WAS ONE, IT WOULD BE THE JD, BL AND AGREEMENTS AND THE UNDERSTANDINGS REACHED BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES. LU SAID IT WAS THE COMMON WISH OF ALL THAT THE LAST LEGCO COULD CROSS OVER 1997. HOW THE CROSSING OVER COULD PROCEED SMOOTHLY WOULD NEED TO BE CONSULTED BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES. HE STRESSED THAT THE BL HAD BEEN PROMULGATED BY THE NPC. NOT EVEN A SINGLE WORD IN IT COULD BE CHANGED. HE HOPED THAT THE BL COULD BE ADHERED TO AND THE BRITISH COULD RETURN TO THE AGREEMENTS REACHED BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES. IT WOULD THEN BE EASY TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS.
2. LU ADDED THAT IF ANY AGREEMENT COULD BE REACHED IN THE TALKS, BOTH SIDES WOULD HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO FULLY IMPLEMENT IT.
THE CHINESE WOULD CERTAINLY DO SO. HE HOPED THAT THE BRITISH WOULD DO LIKEWISE: THEY MUST IMPLEMENT THE AGREEMENT WHATEVER PROCEDURES THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH.
3. LU SAID THAT A NEW KITCHEN WOULD BE SET UP AFTER 1997 IF THE
BRITISH DID NOT CO-OPERATE BY MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1994/95
INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE BL. HE HOPED THAT HKG WOULD REMAIN AN
EFFECTIVE AND AUTHORITATIVE GOVERNMENT BEFORE 1997. BUT IF WE WERE UNCO-OPERATIVE AND DID THINGS UNILATERALLY, OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING WE WOULD INEVITABLY BECOME A LAME DUCK GOVERNMENT. ON THE PRELIMINARY WORK ORGAN FOR THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE, LU REMARKED THAT IT WOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH THE EXERCISE OF POWERS BY THE HKG BEFORE 1997. THE ORGAN WOULD BE SET UP IN PEKING.
ZHANG JUNSHENG
4. NCNA VICE DIRECTOR ZHANG JUNSHENG MET A GROUP OF DB MEMBERS
YESTERDAY. ZHANG REPEATED THE CHINESE CRITICISM THAT WE WERE
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