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THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1988

THE

AND

FRANKLY HONG

BUSINESS

GROUP PROFESSIONAL

OF 81 WAS CONCERNED THAT OTHER ALTERNATIVES OF POLITICAL STRUCTURE FOR THE KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION WOULD LEAD TO CONFRONTATIONAL TRADITIONAL PARTY POLITICS WHICH WOULD UNDERMINE THE SOCIAL ORDER AND

AND RVEN INCITE THE ENTRY OF HARMONY OF THE COMMUNITY,

EXTERNAL

POLITICAL INFLUENCE, HE SAID.

CONSENSUS

MR HO WENT ON TO SAY THAT IT WAS REGRETTABLE THAT NO

BASIC LAW DRAFTING HAD BEEN REACHED AMONG HONG KONG MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTER ON SUCH CRUCIAL ISSUES AS HOW THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE SHOULD BE CHOSEN AND HOW THE LEGISLATURE SHOULD BE FORMED.

"IF HONG KONG PEOPLE DO NOT AGREE, THESE IMPORTANT ISSUES BE DECIDED ON THEIR BEHALF," HE SAID.

WILL

THE

OF

LEAST AGREE THAT "I AM HOPING THAT OUR COMMUNITY CAN AT

OF OUR FUTURE GOVERNMENT MAIN OBJECTIVE WHEN FORMULATING THE MODEL

ENSURE THE MAINTENANCE AND SHOULD BE THAT IT WILL PROSPERITY AND STABILITY FOR HONG KONG," HE ADDED.

FURTHERANCE

MISCONCEPTION THAT

AVOID INTERVENTION BY THE

MR HO ALSO WARNED THAT IT WOULD BE A FATAL

ΤΟ MEANS DEMOCRACY SHOULD BE USED AS A CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

IF HONG

KONG

REMAINED

PROSPEROUS AND

STABLE,

THE IN THE

CHINESE AFFAIRS

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE NO REASON TO INTERVENE OF THE SAR.

BIOULD IF HONG KONG

SUFFER "BUT LET US BE REALISTIC ABOUT IT:

FROM WHICH IT CANNOT SEVERE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION AND CIVIL DISORDER

HE EXTRICATE ITSELF, CHINA WILL HAVE TO INTERVENE, DEMOCRACY OR NOT," SAID.

QUALIFICATIONS, TURNING TO ARTICLE 150 CONCERNING PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES PROFESSIONAL

FELT THAT THE THE MR HO SAID MEMBERS OF

SHOULD BE POWER TO DEAL

THE PROFESSIONS WITH MATTERS CONCERNING VESTED WITH THE SAR RATHER THAN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

WITH THE QUALIFICATIONS ORGANISATIONS

BESIDES, THE SAR GOVERNMENT SHOULD ONLY BE CONCERNED

WHILE LICENSING,

PROFESSIONAL STATUTORY FUNCTION OF

CONFERRED BY SHOULD BE

THE RECOGNISED PROFESSIONAL WHICH SHOULD RETAIN THEIR AUTONOMY,

"IT IS BELIEVED THAT THESE BASIC PRINCIPLES HAVE THE DRAFT, BUT THAT FURTHER REFINEMENTS IN THE TEXT ARE GIVE ABSOLUTE CLARITY," HE SAID.

THAT ADDED

HE

INCLUDING THE INSTITUTIONS ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING,

BREN NET IN NECESSARY

TO

ΤΟ REGULARLY

REPRESENTATIVES

MEDICAL, LEGAL,

AND PLANNING SURVEYING

STUDY THIS PARTICULAR

OF NINE PROFESSIONAL DENTAL, ACCOUNTANCY,

PROFESSIONS HAD

FORMED A WORKING GROUP TO MEET CLAUSE AS WELL AS THE BASIC LAW GENERALLY.

IT WAS HOPED THAT A JOINT

BASIC LAW DRAFTING COMMITTEE.

SUBMISSION WOULD BR MADE TO THE

OF THAT WORKING GROUP,

MR HO SAID THAT HE, AS CONVENER MOST ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT THAT IT WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THAT PROFESSIONS WOULD HAVE WORKED TOGETHER FOR A COMMON OBJECTIVE.

WAS

NINE

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