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7. BASIC LAW: WHILE BOTH EXPRESS AND HK DAILY NEWS WELCOMED THE BLDC SPECIAL GROUP'S DECISION TO DISPENSE WITH THE SECRECY RULE, THEN THIN DAILY NEWS FELT IT WAS NOT PROPER FOR A SPECIAL GROUP TO MAKE THE DECISION. THE MATTER SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY THE BLOC GENERAL MEETING AND THE DECISION SHOULD APPLY TO ALL BLDC AND SPECIAL GROUP MEETINGS, THE PAPER SAID.
COMMENTATOR YIK CHUN OF TIN TIN DAILY NEWS SAND THE FACT THAT THE DATE AND VENUE OF THE SPECIAL GROUP MEETINGS WOULD BE MADE PUBLIC AND THAT THE MEDHA WOULD BE BRIEFED AFTER MEETINGS, SHOWED THAT THE WINEWS OF HK PEOPLE WOULD BE ACCEPTED AS FAR AS WAS POSSIBLE.
WEN WE* PO SAND TODAY THAT ONE OF THE STRENGTHS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM WAS THE NETWEORK OF CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEES WHICH HELPED TO PREVENT MISTAKES IN THE GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING PROCESS. THIS SHOULD BE RETAINED.
8. MACAU: HK ECONOMIC JOURNAL SAND CHINA SHOULD NOT TAKE BACK MACAU BEFORE 1997 BECAUSE CHINA MIGHT BE ABLE TO TRAIN ENOUGH ADMINISTRATORS TO IMPLEMENT THE POLICY OF MACAU PEOPLE RUNNING MACAU IF THINGS WENT BADLY IN MACAU, HK WOULD BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED.
NEW EVENING POST SAND THE MACAU QUESTION WOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT TO RESOLVE MF BOTH SIDES WORKED TOGETHER IN A COOPERATURE SPRINT AND KEPT TO THE PRINCIPLE OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE.
9. LAND COMMISSKON: YUE MAK OF THE NEW EVENING POST NOTED THAT LEADER OF THE BRITISH TEAM ON THE LAND COMMISSION, MR JOHN TODD HAD SAID THE CHINESE WERE NOT VIOLATING THE JOINT DECLARATHON BY SETTING
UP A COMMITTEE TO MANAGE THE SAR LAND FUND. THIS SHOWED THE CHINESE SIDE HAD CONSULTED THE BRITISH SIDE ON THIS MATTER. THE IMPORTANT THING WAS WHETHER THE FUND WOULD BE HANDLED IN A SAFE MANNER HE SAD.
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