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INFO PRIORITY PEKING AND HONG KONG.
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1. TODAY'S MAINICHI NEWSPAPER REPORTS THAT IN AN EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW IN PEKING ON 15 AUGUST CHINESE SECRETARY-GENERAL HU YAOBANG TOLD YAMAUCHI THE MAINICHI'S PRESIDENT, THAT CHINA WOULD REGAIN COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY OF HONG KONG IN 1997. ACCORDING
TO. THE REPORT HU DESCRIBED THE HONG KONG TREATIES AS UNEQUAL IN THEIR ORIGIN, BUT SAID CHINA WOULD WISH TO HAVE A DUE REGARD FOR THE HISTORICAL RESULTS THAT HAD BEEN
ACHIEVED. HE ALSO REPORTEDLY SAID NEGOTIATIONS WERE BEING
HELD ON TWO ISSUES: HOW TO ENSURE HONG KONG'S PROSPERITY AFTER CHINA REGAINED SOVEREIGNTY ON 1 JULY 1997,
AND WHAT SORT OF TRANSITIONAL PERIOD THERE SHOULD BE . HE
HOPED THAT HONG KONG AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES
WOULD RETAIN THEIR CONFIDENCE AFTER SOVEREIGNTY HAD
BEEN RETURNED AND SAID THAT IF THE SPECIAL ECONOMIC
ZONES ESTABLISHED NEAR THE HONG KONG BORDER PROVED
SUCCESSFUL, THEY COULD SERVE AS A MODEL IN DEVISING
A SOLUTION TO THE HONG KONG PROBLEM.
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