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THIS IS A COPY
THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN
CLOSED UNDER
FOI EXEMPTION NO....27().
P.F. Ricketts, Esq,
Hong Kong Department,
FCO
Ben feln,
As devising an
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9 November 1993
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2. the Bunke вы sgeale
Through Train Oath
instructed by the Governor, extended oath
Mr Llewelyn
Mr Whran My full
Miss Bracks, Legal Adm Mr Burke Mots Jamallan
we have been
In
&
this
exercise, the Attorney General has consulted the two EXCO members and queen's Counsellors (Denis Chang and Andrew
together with David Edwards and myself. I attach a draft which we think could serve as a starting point for what might be a long and tedious negotiation with the Chinese.
2.
In particular :
(a) We have not elaborated the meaning of the
country, two systems" principle
"one
We
having to
(which the socialist
wish to avoid, if at all possible, spell out in terms in the oath Chinese no doubt want) that the system and
will be
policies
practised in mainland China, and then for the oath-taker to have to reaffirm that he will refrain from any activities aimed at undermining this part of the two systems. But if we find we have to say something more about this during subsequent negotiations, we can fall back on the wording
the Preamble and Article 5 of the Basic Law, i.e. that "the socialist system and policies shall not be practised in the Hong Kong SAR, and
the
of
previous capitalist system and way of
life shall remain unchanged for 50 years".