TNAG-1453-FCO40-1964-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Basic-Law-1986 — Page 94

BASIC LAW (61)

Date

Statements by Chinese

Officials

Newspaper Comments/Editorials NomCommunist

Communist

Statements/Comments by others

2.4.86 (cont'd)

3.4.86

NCNA HK director Xu Jiatun: A preliminary

draft on the structure of the Basic Law will be issued for discussion after the BLDC meeting ended in Peking later this month.

member Martin Lee's

accusation that the BLDC

secretariat has provided

incomplete reference

information to BLDC

members): The reference information included views from various sectors, including the right-wing HK Times.

BLDC member Szeto Wah: The Basic Law must clearly state that a democratic system should be set up in the SAR, otherwise all other promise of freedoms will only be empty talks.

The BLCC sub-group on the legal system agreed that the major areas of discussion should be the language of law, the power to interpret the Basic Law, and the question of final adjudication. The sub- group also resolved to send letters to multi- lingual countries such as Switzerland asking them how they overcame the problems of multi- lingualism in law.