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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987
MOST
DID
IT
THAT THEY COULD MR CHEONG NOTED THAT SOME HAD REASONED PROBABLY TRUST THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG BUT THEY HAVE SERIOUS RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION AFTER 1997 FOR
SUCH INDISCRIMINATELY APPLY
CENSORSHIP WAS FEARED THAT IT COULD THEN REGULATIONS TO SUPPRESS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG.
HE SAID IT WAS PERHAPS UNDERSTANDABLE OR EVEN NATURAL FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE SITUATION AFTER 1997.
SOME
IF
"HOWEVER, IT WILL BE DISASTROUS FOR THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG
THE ATTITUDE OF UNMOVABLE WE WERE TO TAKE ON EVERY ISSUE ONLY WITH
WHILST SHUNTING OFF THE VALUE DISTRUST
OF OBJECTIVE PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES INVOLVED,' HE SAID.
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COUNCIL AD HOC
MR CHEONG WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE LEGISLATIVE
COME GROUP SET UP TO STUDY FILM CLASSIFICATION AND CENSORSHIP DID NOT
MEASURES то THE TO THE DECISION LIGHTLY IN RECOMMENDING THE INTERIM
WELL AS COUNCIL. IT HAD DONE SO AFTER A LOT OF WORK, DELIBERATION AS THOUGHT BY MEMBERS.
WAS THAT THERE SEEMED TO BE A HE SAID WHAT WAS IMPORTANT
THE MAJORITY OF CONSENSUS OF UNDERSTANDING REACHED AT LEAST AMONGST NON-LAWYER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP.
WAS THE CONSENSUS
OPINIONS, ONE BY THE FCO
THAT THE TWO OTHER AND THE
LEGAL SEEMINGLY DIFFERENT BY THE HON MARTIN LEE'S OF EMPHASIS AND DIFFERENT CONSULTANT, REPRESENTED DIFFERENT ANGLES APPROACHES IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE NEW REGULATIONS VIS A VIS THE VIOLATION OR OTHERWISE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
BE
ESTABLISHED
COVENANT.
BEYOND
DOUBT
NO CLEAR CUT
ΤΟ AS
WHICH
CASE HAD BEEN OR COULD APPROACH WAS THE ONLY RIGHT APPROACH, HE NOTED.
JUDGEMENT ON "UNDER THAT CIRCUMSTANCES, IN HAVING TO EXERCISE
PERCEPTION OF WHAT IS THIS ISSUE, WE CAN ONLY BE GUIDED BY OUR OWN
A WHOLE, HE AND WHAT IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS FOR HONG KONG AS SAID.
**
INTERIM MEASURES OR THE CONTRAVENE ·
NO MORE PROPAGATE
HE SAID THAT THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE INDEED THE NEW REGULATIONS, IF ADOPTED, WOULD PROVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT SEEMED TO HIM TO BE
OR PERHAPS THAN A TOOL DEPLOYED TO ONE'S OWN DISTRUST OF THE POST-1997 ADMINISTRATION.
CONSOLIDATE
EVEN
BEST THE
ΤΟ
INTEREST OF HONG HE SAID THIS APPROACH WAS NOT IN KONG. TOO DEEP-SEATED A DISTRUST COULD EASILY LEAD TO UNWARRANTED TURN WOULD CREATE UNNECESSARY IMAGINATIONS AND SUSPICIONS WHICH IN
FUTURE DIFFERENCE OF ANY
OPINIONS BARRIERS TO SMOOTH SOLUTIONS OF BETWEEN HONG KONG AND THE SOVEREIGN STATE.
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