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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1989

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RECENT EVENTS

IN

MR ARCULLI SAID

HAD CHINA

BROUGHT ADDED

KONG, CONCERN OVER THE ISSUE OF NATIONALITY, AND THE PARENTS OF HONG

A DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THEIR CHILDREN, NEW NATIONALITY FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN.

WERE SEEKING

TODAY'S "IT IS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT IN THE CONTEXT OF

DEBATE NATIONS TO COMMEMORATE BECAUSE A WORKING GROUP SET UP BY THE UNITED

YEAR THE INTERNATIONAL

OF THE CHILD HAS BEAUTIFULLY AND SIMPLY DESCRIBED NATIONALITY TO A CHILD AS A 'RIGHT FROM BIRTH'

•

"THE EVENTS ALSO SERVE AS A POWERFUL REMINDER TO US AS

THOSE PARTICULARLY RIGHTS OF A CHILD AND, IN THIS CONTEXT, WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE BE STATELESS," HE SAID.

ΤΟ THE CHILDREN

HE STRESSED

THE THAT

ISSUE

BRITISH SUBJECTS HAD

OF

FOR NATIONALITY

HONG KONG BEEN RIGHTLY STATED AS A DIRECT MORAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BRITAIN'S.

EVEN IF PART OF

THE THE

"HONG KONG IS NOT A BORROWED PLACE AND TERRITORY WAS LEASED THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT PEOPLE BORN UNDER

AND THIS INCLUDES BRITISH JURISDICTION ARE BRITISH SUBJECTS PROPER,

AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF OUR YOUTH BELOW THE AGE OF 18 BY THE UNITED NATIONS DRAFT.

AS DEFINED

DO THEY

"CHILDREN ARE NOT BORROWED PEOPLE NOR FOR THAT MATTER

LEASE THE EXPIRE WITH

THUS THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BRITISH CITIZENSHIP," HE SAID.

MR

F

ARCULLI

AND

THIS

WITH

SAID SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES MUST ACCEPT

IN ACCORDANCE OBLIGATION AND ENSURE THAT THEIR LEGISLATION WAS

CONVENTION AND MUST THE LETTER, AS WELL AS THE SPIRIT, OF THE DRAFT

THERE WAS NOT ENACT LAWS TO EXCLUDE THIS RIGHT, LET ALONE CLAIM THAT NO SUCH OBLIGATION.

VIOLENCE IN MASS MEDIA DAMAGING YOUNG MINDS

* *

NORMAL

MASS MEDIA WHICH PORTRAYED SEX AND VIOLENCE AS A RATHER WAY OF LIVING HAD PENETRATING AND DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE MINDS OF THE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY YOUNG, THE HON DAVID CHEUNG SAID (WEDNESDAY),

SPEAKING IN THE MOTION

DEBATE ON THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN, SERVICE AGENCY MR CHEUNG SAID A RECENT SURVEY BY A WELL-KNOWN SOCIAL

A

WATCHED HAD FOUND THAT QUITE

NUMBER OF HONG KONG'S YOUNGSTERS PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO TAPES AND READ PORNOGRAPHIC COMIC BOOKS.

THE CONCEPT THAT GAMBLING WAS AN ESSENTIAL "FUN" PART WAS IRREMOVABLE FROM THE VALUE SYSTEM OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE.

"CAN WE IN THE ADULT WORLD SAY THAT SUCH A IS GOOD FOR OUR CHILDREN?" HE ASKED.

SOCIAL

OF LIFE

ENVIRONMENT

/HE NOTED

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