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EE MAR 89 14:32
FROM COI TECH RADIO
TO FCO NEWS
PAGE.636
TRANSCRIPT B: HONG KONG SELECT CONNITTEE MEETING 22 MAR 89
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WELSH
Can you give us an assurance, Sir Geoffrey, that on anything
that we discuss the human rights will be at the forefront and you
would assure the people of Hong Kong that human rights will be
written in some way into the Agreement before it finally
concludes?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
If you start off with the Joint Declaration, that makes
express provision for respect for the various declarations on
human rights and the Basic Law itself contains explicit provisions
on human rights. The possibility of going beyond those
provisions that are in the Basic Law in the form of a Hong Kong
Bill of Rights consolidating everything is a possibility that is
certainly still open.
WR ROVLANTS.
In other words, between now and 1997, the Hong Kong
Government could initiate a new piece of legislation which would
then be carried over after 1997 and be enforceable after the
trum:fer?
No comments yet.
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