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who draft the Basic Law] is a matter in which both Governments
have at this stage an interest if there are to be recommendations
made to the British Parliament in support of the Chinese plan as
a basis for the future stability and prosperity of Hong Kong.
We
urge the Chinese Government to give consideration to the need
for maximising confidence in their plan by indicating the nature
of the legal framework they have in mind as the basis for the
future government of the SAR after the constitutional links with
the United Kingdom have been severed.
and
These are matters to which we would wish to return in the
context of our discussions about a draft agreement. We [urge four
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Chinese friends to recognise that we can assist them in their
purpose of announcing their plan in terms that will be understood
and accepted by those in the international community. (For those who live
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who contribute so much to Hong Kong's stability and prosperity depaid;
will wish to understand in terms of the common law and (western)
constitutional terminology the way in which the future arrangements
for the exercise of legislative, executive and judicial power will
operate in a SAR enjoying a high degree of autonomy.
which are of be upperst only in to you as they are consistent with the constitution, offter of the concerned
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