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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1989

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CONFIDENCE CRISIS REQUIRES RAPID SOLUTION

HONG

CURRENT CONFIDENCE

CRISIS

CANNOT

WAIT

FOR A

TO IT IN THE FIND WAYS TO HELP LEGISLATIVE

KONG'S SOLUTION. EITHER BRITAIN FINDS A PRACTICAL SOLUTION NEAR FUTURE OR ELSE THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WILL MIRIAM LAU SAID IN THE THEMSELVES, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE HON

WHOLE

COUNCIL

COMMITTEE KONG

DISREGARD HONG

SPEAKING IN THE MOTION DEBATE ON THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS

EROSION

HONG OF THE

PROCESS OF REPORT, MRS LAU SAID BRITISH SUBJECTS' NATIONALITY RIGHTS WAS CONDUCTED IN TOTAL OF THE INTERESTS OF HONG KONG PEOPLE BY A UK PARLIAMENT IN WHICH KONG HAD NO REPRESENTATION, NO INFLUENCE, NO VOTE AND NO SAY.

FURTHER RELEGATED THE ΤΟ THAT

CLASS OF SECOND

SHE SAID THAT THE 1981 NATIONALITY ACT

BRITISH SUBJECTS POSITION OF HONG CITIZENS.

KONG

"IS IT NOT MONSTROUSLY UNJUST TO TREAT HONG WAY WHEN THEY HAVE SERVED BRITAIN WELL?

KONG PEOPLE THIS

MUCH IS IT TOO WHICH OUGHT то WHO HAVE THE

"IN A POLITICAL EMERGENCY SUCH AS THE PRESENT, TO ASK FOR RESTORATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT BELONG TO THOSE BORN ON BRITISH SOIL NOT TO MENTION THOSE FORSAKEN THEIR OWN NATIONALITY TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN?" SHE ASKED.

THE

THE FAC REPORT THAT HONG MRS LAU SAID IT WAS APPARENT FROM KONG PEOPLE'S CAREFULLY PREPARED AND SOUNDLY BASED SUBMISSIONS ON NATIONALITY ISSUE HAD ALL BEEN CAVALIERLY DISMISSED.

"INSTEAD WHAT WE HAVE IS A MERE ACCENTUATION

* SHE SAID. WELL KNOWN DIE-HARD BRITISH GOVERNMENT LINE,'

OF THE ALL TOO

IN ITS REPORT MRS LAU SAID THE FAC HAD REPEATEDLY EMPHASISED

HONG KONG THAT BRITAIN HAD A SPECIAL OBLIGATION TO HONG KONG BECAUSE

SELF ABLE ΤΟ EXERCISE THE PEOPLE WERE NOT

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF

DETERMINATION.

THAT

TO EXPOUND ON THIS SPECIAL IT HAD BEEN MET BY THE JOINT

THE FAC HOWEVER WENT NO FURTHER OBLIGATION OTHER THAN TO SAY DECLARATION, SHE SAID.

PROSPEROUS

то ASSURE HONG PLACE RECENT HAPPENINGS IN

" SHE NOTED.

"THE JOINT DECLARATION PURPORTS THAT HONG KONG WILL BE A STABLE AND BEFORE AND AFTER 1997. AFTER THE KONG PEOPLE CAN NO LONGER BE SO SURE,

KONG PEOPLE IN TO LIVE PEKING HONG

WE NEEDED ASSURANCE MRS LAU SAID ALL THE MORE DID BRITAIN THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION WOULD WORK, ASSURANCE IN OF RESTORATION OF PEOPLE'S FULL BRITISH CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS.

NOW FROM FORM

THE

/"THIS MUST