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There are
currently
right but is
This enables
- 2
50 members. As a dependent territory
of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong is not a member in its own
regarded as being "within the Commonwealth".
Hong Kong to participate in various
and activities organised by or related to the
Such organisations/activities may be
organisations
Commonwealth.
classified into :
"governmental"
(a)
which
(b)
organisations/activities.
in
participation is normally, by practice
or by constitution, confined to governments
or
government representatives
organisations
in this category include the Commonwealth
Finance Ministers' Meeting, the Commonwealth
Law Ministers' Meeting and the Commonwealth
Fund for Technical Co-operation;
"non-governmental"
organisations/activities
in which participation is open to individuals
or groups of individuals organisations in
this category include the Association of
Commonwealth
Universities,
Commonwealth
Dental Association and Commonwealth Engineers
Council; and
4.
(c)
Given
legal links with Commonwealth countries in
areas
like
enforcement
treatment
reciprocal
extradition,
of judgements and special
for Commonwealth countries or
citizens in the laws of Hong Kong.
that Hong Kong will cease to be a dependent
territory of the
status as part of
United Kingdom
a Commonwealth
after 1997, its formal
nation and its formal
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