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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1989

BUT NEITHER ARTICLE MADE

REFERENCE AND ACCORDINGLY NEITHER THE ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS,

COUNCIL STATE

WAS COMMITTEE NOR THE

UNDER EMPOWERED

SEND IN CONSTITUTION TO IMPOSE MARTIAL LAW IN THE HKSAR. OR

ANY

то

NPC

SPECIAL STANDING

THE

CHINESE

TROOPS.

MR LEE SAID.

ALL INTERNAL DISTURBANCES HE SAID THAT SINCE WOULD

WITH BY FIRST BE DEALT

THE HKSAR THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE IN

BEST POSITION TO PARTICULAR DISTURBANCE HAD GONE BEYOND ITS CONTROL.

THE THE GOVERNMENT.

DETERMINE WHETHER

IN

HKSAR HKSAR A

THE CHIEF "THE BASIC LAW SHOULD THEREFORE STIPULATE THAT WHEN

HAS EXECUTIVE OF THE REGION DETERMINES THAT THE TURMOIL IN THE REGION

14 OF THE BASIC LAW. BECOME UNCONTROLLABLE, HE MAY. UNDER ARTICLE

LAW AND ORDER OF THE INVITE THE GARRISON TO ASSIST REGION," HE SAID.

IN

RESTORING

THE BY

LEGISLATIVE

THE INVITATION MUST BE ENDORSED

COUNCIL TO REFUSE ΤΟ WITHIN THREE DAYS. AND IF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WERE

THE HKSAR COULD HANDLE THE ENDORSE THE INVITATION OR DECIDE THAT

BE GIVEN POWER ΤΟ SITUATION BY ITSELF. THEN IT SHOULD

ORDEN THE

TROOPS TO RETURN TO THEIR BARRACKS, IF NECESSARY.

IN A

"WE SHOULD INSIST THAT EVEN WHEN THE HKSAR 18 EMERGENCY, THE RIGHT TO ADMINISTER THE REGION SHOULD STILL

18 TO IN THE HKSAR GOVERNMENT. AND THE GARRISON'S DUTY

DO ΤΟ REGION WHEN THE AND ORDER TO

REQUESTED

50, HE SAID. ADMINISTER THE REGION EVEN UNDER MARTIAL LAW.'

OF

P

SOME EMERGENCY,

STATE OF BE VESTED RESTORE LAW ΤΟ AND NOT

BASIC

HE ADDED THAT EVEN IN TIMES RIGHTS MUST NOT BE INFRINGED. SUCH AS THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND THE AGAINST TORTURE.

HUMAN

RIGHT

CONSTITUTION OF THE MR LEE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE

PEOPLE'S THAT THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA BE AMENDED SO THAT IT WOULD STATE CLEARLY

OF THE LEADERSHIP FOUR BASIC PRINCIPLES, PARTICULARLY THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, WOULD NOT APPLY TO THE HASAR.

SAR CHIEF EXECUTIVE. MR LEE TURNING TO THE ELECTION OF THE

VIEW THAT THE SAID THAT MANY LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS STILL HELD THE

SHOULD NOT BE ELECTED BY UNIVERSAL ADULT FIRST CHIEF SUFFRAGE.

EXECUTIVE

"WHEN THIS ISSUE WAS DEBATED AT OUR

I THAT CLOSED

MUST CONFESS I DOORS. CONVINCING ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF THAT VIEW,

IN-HOUSE MEETINGS HAD NOT HEARD A

HE SAID.

BEHIND SINGLE

HONG

HE SAID IT WAS QUITE CLEAR FROM RECENT EVENTS KONG WANTED

TOOK A

EXECUTIVE WHO CHIEF LEADERSHIP OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

THAT NOBODY IN THE ORDERS FROM

"AND NOBODY