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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1989
COMMITTEE
SPEAKING IN THE MOTION DEBATE ON THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
NAIVE AND UNREALISTIC FOR REPORT, MR LEE SAID IT WAS
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO HAVE BLIND FAITH IN THE JOINT DECLARATION. HE COMMENTED
SAID THAT THE FOREIGN SECRETARY. SIR GEOFFREY HOWE, HAD
CHINA WOULD STILL HONOUR THE JOINT DECLARATION BECAUSE IT WAS IN ITS INTEREST DO SO.
то
HONG BUT IF THE PRESENT CONFIDENCE CRISIS WERE TO CONTINUE AND
THEN KONG LOST ITS PROSPERITY AND STABILITY,
CHINA MIGHT NO LONGER то THE TERMS OF THINK IT WAS IN ITS INTEREST TO ADHERE
THE JOINT
DECLARATION, MR LEE SAID.
DO
то HE SAID THAT IF ONE REALLY WANTED KONG, ONE MUST NOT START FROM THE PREMISE THAT THE WAS AS INVIOLABLE AS THE BIBLE.
HONG
FOR SOMETHING
JOINT DECLARATION
MR LEE SAID HE WAS NOT SUGGESTING THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION
TAKEN MUST BE TORN UP BEFORE A RE-NEGOTIATION HAD
PLACE. THE JOINT SOME NEW DECLARATION WOULD REMAIN BINDING UNTIL IT WAS SUPERSEDED BY AGREEMENT. AND IF CHINA CHOSE TO BE
THE UNCOMPROMISING,
JOINT
DECLARATION WOULD STILL STAND.
TROOPS IN HONG
NOT BE
KONG, MR LEE
ON THE STATIONING OF CHINESE SUGGESTED THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SHOULD SEEK TO SECURE THE AGREEMENT OF CHINA THAT TROOPS WOULD
STATIONED HERE. ТНІЯ WOULD REQUIRE AMENDING THE JOINT DECLARATION.
SHOULD
TURNING TO THE BASIC LAW, MR LEE SAID SERIOUS ATTENTION
SETTING UP OF A JOINT BE GIVEN TO THE FAC'S RECOMMENDATION ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO INTERPRET THE BASIC LAW.
BE
THE BASIC LAW SHOULD PROVIDE THAT ONLY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE EMPOWERED TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE FUTURE SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION.
HE FULLY SUPPORTED THE FAC'S CALL FOR THE IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT
THE PROVISIONS OF A BILL OF RIGHTS IN HONG KONG.
OF THIS BILL OF PARAMOUNT AND NOT ВЕ RIGHTS MUST BE ENTRENCHED IN THE BASIC LAW AS SUBJECT TO ALL OTHER LAWS OF THE SAR.
THE FAC'S
PROPOSALS
ON DEMOCRATIC REFORM, MR LEE AGREED WITH OF HAVING 50 PER CENT DIRECTLY ELECTED SEATS ΤΟ THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1991, AND 100 PER CENT IN 1995.
FIRST CHIEF SAID THE
BUT HE DISAGREED WITH THE FAC'S PROPOSAL THAT THE EXECUTIVE OF THE SAR BE ELECTED BY AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE. HE ONLY ACCEPTABLE METHOD WAS BY UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
"ACCOUNTABILITY"
AND
ON HE FULLY AGREED WITH THE FAC'S VIEWS ITS RECOMMENDATION THAT "WHERE THERE IS AN IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE SHOULD RESIGN.'
"
/ON THE