2
IN
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1988
WERE STILL
WITHIN 2 MONTHS A YOU OF ITS MAIN
AND OF COURSE IT WAS A BREAK THROUGH. THOUGH THERE PRODIGIES OF NEGOTIATION TO BE PERFORMED, WE HAD COMPLETE AGREEMENT. IT MAY BE WORTHWHILE REMINDING POINTS.
WILL
AFTER THE
UNTIL 30 JUNE 1997, WHEN THE LEASE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES IN ANY CASE EXPIRE, BRITAIN REMAINS RESPONSIBLE FOR HONG KONG. THAT DATE HONG KONG BECOMES A SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION UNDER
CHINA. THE REGIME FOR THIS GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
BUT OUT
IT IN THE
IS IN BROAD TERMS REGION IS SET
AGREEMENT,
IS A LENGTHY TEXT CRUCIALLY SUPPLEMENTED IN THE FIRST ANNEX, WHICH
LIFE FOR HONG KONG. IT IS PRESCRIBING IN GREAT DETAIL THE WAY OF STATED THAT THESE DETAILS WILL BE SET OUT IN A BASIC LAW TO BE THEY WILL BY THE CHINESE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND THAT UNCHANGED FOR 50 YEARS.
HONG KONG'S
PASSED REMAIN
50 YEARS AFTER 1997, IS AVOWEDLY PREVIOUS CAPITALIST EXAMPLE, HONG KONG
IT TERRITORY.
WILL SPECIFICALLY
ARE
OF THE RELEVANT MORE BESIDES,
THIS REGIME, SECURED FOR CAPITALIST. THE ANNEX STATES THAT SYSTEM AND LIFESTYLE SHALL REMAIN UNCHANGED. FOR
A WILL REMAIN A FREE PORT AND
SEPARATE CUSTOMS OF LAW. HUMAN RIGHTS RETAIN ITS FAMILIAR SYSTEM PROTECTED BY THE CONTINUED APPLICATION TO HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS. ALL THIS, AND A GREAT DEAL
WHEN ONE REMARKABLE IS SET OUT IN DETAIL WHICH
HANDS IN THE CONTROL OF CHINA WAS THEREBY DELIBERATELY TYING ITS
AS
THESE OF CHINA. TERRITORY WHICH IT
IN AN INTERNATIONALLY BINDING ELABORATE UNDERTAKINGS ARE ENSHRINED AGREEMENT, WHICH HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, BY BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS AND BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.
HAD
IS
ALWAYS
REGARDED
MEANT TEXT
AN
BRITISH
PART
CONSIDERS
THAT
TO GET TO THIS
UNPRECEDENTED AND ENORMOUSLY
NEGOTIATION.
THE FOR
IT WAS DIFFICULT
GOVERNMENT
UNLIKE SO MANY THAT,
NEGOTIATIONS FOR COLONIAL UNPRECEDENTED IN
THE PAST, IT COULD NOT TERRITORIES WE HAD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR IN
WAS CLOSED. FOR LEAD FORWARD TO INDEPENDENCE. THAT TRADITIONAL ROAD
A LEASE WHICH WE 92 PER CENT OF THE TERRITORY WE WERE DEALING WITH RECOGNISED AS VALID AND WHICH TERMINATED IN 1997. THE REMAINING 8 CENT OF THE TERRITORY WAS UNVIABLE ON ITS OWN. HONG KONG WAS BOUND RETURN TO CHINA; THE ONLY QUESTION WAS THE TERMS ON WHICH IT DID SO.
PER TO
UNPRECEDENTED, AND, I FOR THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IT WAS ALSO SUSPECT, EQUALLY DIFFICULT, IN THAT, AS THEY SAW IT, HONG KONG
THEY COULD
EVEN EMBARK HOW TERRITORY. WAS THEIR ALWAYS
OF THEIR NEGOTIATION WITH A FOREIGN POWER ON THE FUTURE OF PART
19 AND ON
A
OWN
LAND?
THERE WAS