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TRANSCRIPT A HONG KONG SELECT COMMITTEE NEETING
22 MAR 89
PUNKIGE SECRETARY (COFT) :
as well:
The Chinese
If I can give you just "Two or three "exanpies by way về illustration, because that also indicates the way into the future
membership of GATT, at the very first JLG meeting in 1985 we proposed that arrangements should be made for Hong Kong to be deemed a separate contracting party to GATT, to ensure that her
status in GATT would remain unchanged after 1997.
side initially resisted that proposal, they argued that Bong Kong should participate in GATT after 1997 under the Chinese umbrella
and that despite the fact that China at the time had not resumed
Ve were able to her place in the GATT and still has not done so. secure eventual agreement from the Chinese to our proposals at the
third meeting of the JLG.
So that is one example of a very tenacious and specific
negotiation. Another, which I will not give you as much detail
about, but the establishment of a framework for the payment of a
modern enhanced package of pension benefits to the Civil Service,
we needed to safeguard those rights, as you can well understand.
Again, initially the Chinese were unconvinced of the case there,
but after we had carefully explained our proposals and their
implications, they eventually agreed in full to our proposals but
not until the fifth meeting of the JLG.
And one that is continuing, of great importance, is in
relation to Air Service Agreements.
In the Joint Declaration we
MUMO
its own behalf after July 1997.
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