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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1989

THE JOINT DECLARATION DID NOT STATE THAT THE EXECUTIVE

ACCOUNTABLE TO THE AUTHORITIES WERE

LEGISLATURE IN ONLY CERTAIN BB ATTACHED TO IT RESPECTS, AND THE ONLY INTERPRETATION THAT COULD WAS FULL ACCOUNTABILITY.

ACCOUNTABILITY THE PROVISIONS OF THE BASIC LAW DRAFT REGARDING

SPIRIT AND INTENT OF MUST THEREFORE BE AMENDED TO REFLECT THE TRUE THE JOINT DECLARATION, SHE SUGGESTED.

SHE ALSO EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERN OVER ARTICLE 157 OF THE BASIC LAW,

DRAFT

LAW

WHICH

INTERPRET THE WERE THE RELATIONSHIP

UNDER THIS ARTICLE, IF THE SAR COURTS NEEDED TO PROVISIONS OF THE BASIC

CONCERNING AFFAIRS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CENTRAL PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT OR THE

THE SAR,

SAR COURTS WOULD BETWEEN THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES AND THE HAVE TO

AND ABDICATE,

STANDING THE POWER WAS

THE RESERVED TO COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS FOR INTERPRETATION OF RELEVANT PROVISIONS.

THE

IN ORDER

THAT

CITIZENS OF

ANY

BE ADEQUATEL"

THE GOVERNMENT, OF THAT COUNTRY

MAY COUNTRY POSSIBLE ABUSES BY AN ARBITRARY PROTECTED FROM JUDICIAL ORGANS WITHIN THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE MUST BE ABLE TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY, SHE SAID.

IS MY

THAT VIEW

ANY

"AS SUCH, IT JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS MUST BE APPROACHED CAUTION," SHE SAID.

RESTRICTION

ON THE WITH THE GREATEST OF

OBLIGATION TO IMPLANT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN HK

*

BOTH THE BRITISH AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENTS HAVE TO ENSURE THAT A DEEPLY ROOTED DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BEFORE SOVEREIGNTY OVER HONG KONG REVERTS TO CHINA, DR THE CHE-HUNG SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY THURSDAY),

AN

IS

OBLIGATION LAID DOWN

HON

LEONG

SPEAKING IN THE MOTION DEBATE ON THE DRAFT BASIC LAW, DR

HAD

IN THAT WHAT

HAPPENED

CHINA EXPRESSED CONCERN

AMIDST PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT COULD WELL BE MIRRORED INTO HONG KONG WHEN SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION CAME INTO BEING.

LEONG

THE

THE

HE HOPED THAT THE BASIC LAW ON WHICH HONG KONG

CHINA DICTATED, FOR ITS FUTURE WOULD NOT BE ONE THAT PRO-CHINA BODIES WERE TRYING TO PROPAGATE.

HAD TO DEPEND NOR ONE THAT

SYSTEM

RIGHTS,

"RATHER, IT MUST BE A BASIC LAW

FULLY DEMOCRATIC THE PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WILL BE GOVERNED BY A

HUMAN LEST THERE WILL BE NO GUARANTEE FOR FREEDOM AND BASIC HE SAID.

THAT

CLEARLY ENSHRINES THAT

TRUE,

/DR LEONG