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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: PRESS COVERAGE: WEEKLY ROUNDUP.

SUMMARY:

1. DAYA BAY REMAINED THE MAJOR NEWS STORY THIS WEEK. THE VISIT TO HK OF TWO CHINESE BLDC MEMBERS RECEIVED MODERATE PRESS COVERAGE. OTHER FUTURE RELATED SUBJECTS COVERED WERE PENSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS, CIVIL AVIATION MATTERS AND TRAVEL DOCUMENTS.

NEWS COVERAGE:

2. BASIC LAW: TWO CHINESE BLDC MEMBERS, WANG SHUWEN AND CHEN X4N SAD AT A MEETING WITH BLCC MEMBERS THAT SINCE THE JOINT DECLARATHON STATED THAT LOCAL INHABITANTS SHOULD FORM THE SAR

GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATURE, THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM LOCAL

NHABITANT HAD IMPLICATIONS ON THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE HK

SAR. BLCC MEMBERS SUGGESTED THAT PERMANENT RESIDENTS OF THE HK SAR

SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND TO STAND FOR ELECTION TO THE

LEGISLATURE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR NATIONALITY. HOWEVER ONLY CHINESE

NATIONALS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE UP THE POST OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE

OR SECRETARY-LEVEL POSTS AS STIPULATED IN THE JOINT DECLARATION.

THE MAJORITY OF BLCC MEMBERS THOUGHT THAT PROVISIONS IN THE

HINTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CHVAL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND THE

INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

WHICH APPLIED TO HK SHOULD BE WRITTEN INTO THE BASHC LAW. SOME MEMBERS SUGGESTED THAT CHINA SHOULD EMPOWER THE HK SAR TO SIGN THE TWO COVENANTS AS AN INDEPENDENT PARTY, BUT SOME MEMBERS OPPOSED THIS PROPOSAL ON THE GROUNDS THAT HK WAS NOT (NOT) A SOVERIGN STATE. ANOTHER SUGGESTION, RECEIVED FAVOURABLY BY WANG SHUWEN AND CHEN XHIN, WAS THAT CHINA SHOULD BECOME A SIGNATORY TO THE TWO COVENANTS. HIT WAS REPORTED IN TODAY'S PAPERS THAT HEUNG YEE KUK MEMBERS TOLD THE VISHTING BLDC MEMBERS THAT THE KUK WAS A STATUTORY CONSULTATINE BODY ON NEW TERRITORIES POLICIES AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE GIVEN A SEAT ON THE FUTURE SAR LEGISLATURE. ANDREW WONG, A KUK ADVISER, SAND RIGHT OF ABODE HN HK SHOULD BE GIVEN TO INDIGENOUS N.T. RESIDENTS WHO HAD TAKEN BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AND TO THEIR CHILDREN BORN OVERSEAS. WEN WE PO SAND THAT THE BLDC MEMBERS HAD AGREED THAT INDIGENOUS NT RESIDENTS SHOULD BE TREATED AS A SPECIAL CATEGORY AND THAT THEIR RIGHTS SHOULD BE DEALT WITH SEPARATELY IN THE BASIC

LAW.

ON NATIONALITY, BLCC MEMBERS REQUESTED CLARIFICATION FROM MR WANG

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