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3. BASIC LAW: BLCC MEMBER MAN-SACHEUNG SAID CHINESE MEMBERS OF
THE BLDC SUB-GROUP ON THE CPG/SAR RELATIONSHIP WOULD MAKE A TEN-
DAY FACT-FINDING VISHT TO HONG KONG IN JULY. WEN WEH PO SAND THEY
WOULD EXCHANGE WIEWS WITH BLCC MEMBERS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE CHINESE CONSTITUTION AND THE BASIC LAW, THE STATIONING OF TROOPS IN HONG KONG, RESIDUAL POWERS AND INTERPRETATION OF AND AMENDMENTS TO THE BASIC LAW. THE BLDC SUB-GROUP ON THE SAR POLITHICAL
SYSTEM WOULD HOLD TS NEXT MEETING IN SHENZHEN AT THE END OF JUNE,
NCNA HONG KONG DIRECTOR XU HATUN TOLD REPORTERS. THE HONG KONG NEWSPAPER SOCIETY, THE HONG KONG JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AND THE NEW EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATION HAD WRITTEN TO DR LOUNS CHA, CO-CONVENOR OF THE SUB-GROUP, TO SAY THAT THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING SHOULD NOT (NOT) BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL. IN TODAYS' SCMP, DR. LOUIS CHA SAID THAT HONG KONG MEMBERS OF THE SUB-GROUP HAD DECIDED TO
FIGHT FOR A RELAXATION OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY RULE. THIS WAS A
REVERSAL OF THE PREVIOUS WHEW (PARA, 2 OF MY TELNO 1471). DR. CHA HOPED THAT THE PROPOSALS WOULD BE ACCEPTED. THESE INCULDED THAT THE TIME AND PLACE OF ALL MEETING SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC AND
THAT REGULAR BRIEFINGS SHOULD BE HELD ON THE PROGRESS MADE DURING
DISCUSSION OF THE POST 1997 POLITICAL SYSTEM. THE BLCC SUB-GROUP
ON SAR RESIDENT'S RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS HAD AGREED THAT THE
TERM ''PERMANENT RESIDENTS' OF HK SHOULD COVER CHINESE NATIONALS
BORN IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHO HELD A HONG KONG D AND FOREIGN
NATIONALS HOLDING FOREIGN PASSPORTS BUT WITH A PARENT OF CHINESE
NATIONALITY RESIDENT (IN HONG KONG. THE JOINT DECLARATHON STATED
THAT THE SAR GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATURE WOULD BE COMPOSED OF
**LOCAL INHABITANTS''. THIS TERM SHOULD, IT WAS SUGGESTED, REFER
TO PEOPLE WHO HELD A PERMANENT HONG KONG AND CARD AND WHO WERE NOT
CINTA ZENS OF OTHER COUNTRIES. ANOTHER SUGGESTION WAS HIT SHOULD MEAN
PEOPLE HOLDING A PERMANENT HONG KONG ID CARD, A SAR PASSPORT OR A BN(0) PASSPORT.
4. LAND COMMISSION : ECONOMIC JOURNAL AND ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS
REPORTED BLDC MEMBERS LIU YIRU-CHU'S CRITICISM OF THE PLAN PUT
FORWARD BY THE CHINESE SINDE OF THE LAND COMMISSION TO INVEST THE
SAR LAND FUND. TO USE THE FUND NOW WOULD AMOUNT TO EXERCISHING
THE POWERS OF THE FUTURE SAR GOVERNMENT WHICH HAD YET TO BE SET UP**
SHE SAND. THIS WOULD BE AGAINST THE PROVISIONS OF THE JOINT
DECLARATION. LEADER OF THE CHINESE LAND COMMISSION TEAM, SUN
YANHANG DISPUTED THIS. HE SAID THAT THOSE WHO SUGGESTED THAT THE
SAR GOVERNMENT'S SHARE OF LAND REVENUE SHOULD BE DEPOSITED M
HONG KONG DOLLARS IN LOCALLY-INCORPORATED BANKS HAD MISINTERPRETED
THE JOINT DECLARATION WHICH SARD THAT THE MONEY ''SHALL NOT BE
DRAWN UPON'' HE ADDED LATER THAT THE SAR FUND WOULD BE DEPOSINTED
HIN FOREIGN CURRENCIES AND INVESTED IN STOCKS, HIN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, MR. SUN SAND THAT ALTHOUGH SOME DEVELOPERS FELT THE ANNUAL LAND SALE LIMIT OF 50 HECTARES SET
*AN THE JOHNT DECLARATION WAS TOO LOW, THE CHINESE AND BRINTINSH GOVERNMENTS DND NOT INTEND TO CHANGE THE LIMIT.
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