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which
is
officials will be relationship
our pregent
legislature.
where
have
business. There.
with those
the
are
OVSI
wish to
Government
being
in
from different
on it putting through government sitting
need also to evolve different ways of dealing a
the executive and the legislature, between things
which we're going to have to be thinking about ourselves the next few years. because we'll come to a stage where we mirror image of what's in the Basic Law and which the SAR
into once it comes to think about going to have
is 1997.
also
Q:
you
do
Well.
in that context. beyond 1997 how much would
the the
Chief Kong
regard people of Hong
their defending
interests
in discussions Executive
with the government of the People's Republic of China?
think
that
as
Governor:
I hope totally.
0:
He
their would be regarded as
protector
in
battling things out in Beijing ?
Governor:
in
as the
Well, he will be the head of the government Hong Kong. he will be a Hong
a Hong Kong person selected or elected situation evolves in Hong Kong, so he will be the representative
in Peking Hong Kong in dealing not only with the central government but with dealing with other countries and territories where the Kong SAR has autonomy, for instance, economic matters.
Q:
Mong
Hong
So he would be very much identified with Kong? I notice that in the draft Basic Law, it says that he should be ä Chinese citizen. Is the word Chinese in a general sense? Why Hong Kong citizen ?
not
Governor:
Chinese Chinese Chinese
He
or a would be a Chinese citizen
of the national, that means he would come under that part nationality law that would include somebody who was an ethnic born in Hong Kong because those people would be treated by the Chinese
Chinese being
nationals if they have citizens of some foreign countries.
as
аз
not
become
Say You
nationals
that
he
Or
be
would But given, Q: representing the people of Hong Kong, the trust in the Chief Executive is therefore clearly important, and that leads me on to why it is that he won't be directly elected in 19972
the Governor:
The provisions, laid down at the moment in
before 1997 draft of the Basic Law are that in 1997 or in fact just
office or because he has to be selected before then to come into the 1st of July is that he should either be selected by a committee as set out in the draft or elected after a process of consultation
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