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THE PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER PERES DE MIRANDA SAND AN AN

*INTERVIEW WITH MACAU RADIO EN LISBON THAT THE HK FORMULA COULD NOT

BE APPLIED COMPLETLY TO MACAU. HE HOPED AN AGREEMENT WOULD BE

REACHED WHICH WOULD INCREASE MACAU RESIDENTS' CONFIDENCE AND

PRESERVE PORTUGUESE CULTURE IN THE ENCLAVE. ACCORDING TO AN AFP

DISPATCH IN TODAYS PAPERS, PORTUGUESE SOURCES HAD INDICATED THAT

PORTUGAL WOULD TRY TO PUT FORWARD THE VIEW TO CHINA THAT BOTH

COUNTRIES WOULD BENEFIT OF LISBON CONTINUED TO RUN MACAU FOR SEVERAL

YEARS AFTER 1997. MING PAO REPORTED VICTOR SHIT OF HK U AS SAYING

HE THOUGHT CHINA MIGHT REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OVER MACAU BETWEEN 2003

TO 2008 AS IT WOULD NOT (NOT) BE BENEFICIAL TO HK IF IT WERE TAKEN

BACK EARL HER.

STATE COUNCILLOR PENGFE TOLD MR RUM MEDINA, LEADER OF THE

PORTUGUESE NEGOTIATING TEAM, THAT CHINA WOULD LOOK TO THE FUTURE WHILE DISCUSSING QUESTIONS LEFT OVER FROM HISTROY.

5. DAYA BAY: THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS QUOTING SOURCES CLOSE TO EXCO,

SAID THAT EXCO DISCUSSED HOW THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESPOND TO

MOUNTING PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR PROJECT. THE

MEETING HAD CONCLUDED THAT THE PROJECT HAD DEVELOPED INTO A POLITICAL

AMSSUE REQUIREING A POLITICAL RESPONSE, EDITOR IN CHIEF HU CHUREN

SAND THAT WE THE VIEWS OF HK PEOPLE ON THIS ISSUE WERE NOT TAKEN MINTO CONSIDERATION, THEN THE IDEA OF ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS'

**HK PEOPLE RULING HK'' AND EVEN THE BASIC LAW WOULD BE USELESS.

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6. OTHERS: MADAM DENG XIANFU, SISTER OF CHINESE LEADER DENG XIAO

PHING SAID TO A WEN WE PO COLUMNIST THAT HER BROTHER HAD SAID HE

WOULD DEFNETLY WISHT HK.

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IN AN INTERVIEW ON RADIO 3, A VISITING OFFICIAL FROM THE HK DEPARTMENT OF THE FCO, ANTHONY LAYDEN, SAND THE HK DEPARTMENT WOULD CONTINUE TO BE NEEDED EVEN WHEN THE JLG WAS ESTABLISHED 'N

HK PERMANENTLY FROM 1988. HE SAND HE WOULD SEE THE DEPARTMENT AS A

VITAL ONE RIGHT UP TO AND BEYOND 1997.

ON THE CIVIL SERVICE, XIAO WE HYUN CO-CONVENOR OF THE BLDC SPECIAL GROUP ON THE SAR POLITICAL STRUCTURE, SAID SERVING

EXPATRIMATES WOULD CONTINUE TO BE EMPLOYED WHETHER THEY HELD A SAR

PERMANENT HD CARD OR NOT. THEY COULD SERVE IN ANY POST EXCEPT AS

HEADS OF MAJOR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING THE POLICE. THEY COULD ALSO SERVE AS ADVISORS. ORENTAL DAILY NEWS TODAY REPORTED

THAT NONE OF THE WAR VETERANS IN HK HAD YET APPLIED FOR BRI»T««SH

NATIONALITY BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS.

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