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Zhang Junsheng
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Tsui Tong in HK Commercial Daily
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Chinese Foreign
Ministry
spokesman Wu
Jianmin
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The British side is creating a new problem over civil servants' participation in political activities while the talks are still going on, causing "a new upheaval before the previous one has subsided".
The Government's various proposals to change the civil service system would make it impossible for the SAR Chief Executive to keep civil servants under control.
Senior civil servants and pro-British politicians would be the ones running HK
after 1997.
China opposes any major changes to the civil service system.
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HK Affairs
Adviser Dr Zee Sze-yong in Wen
Wei Po
Chinese sources quoted by Ming
Pao
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Lu Ping
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HK Commercial Daily editorial
It is important to maintain the stability of the civil service. Allowing civil servants to join political groups and to provide a new functional constituency for them will be undesirable for the interests
of the civil service and its stability.
The proposed functional constituency is not in line with the definition of functional constituency per se because unlike other
constituencies, it is difficult to define
the rights and privileges of civil servants. The Chinese side is not prepared to give way because the change will
seriously damage the neutrality of the
civil service.
The Chinese side hopes that the civil service system would remain unchanged.
The Chinese side should be consulted of any changes to HK's political, social and economic systems after the signing of the
JD on December 19, 1984. The Governor cannot shrug off his responsibility by referring to the Government's internal guidelines in 1990 which allowed civil servants to join political groups.
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