TNAG-1850-FCO40-2625-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 59

TRANSCRIPT A SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989

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MR PETER SHORE:

There is one part of the draft Basic Law, or rather

the Joint Declaration, on which I would have thought the

minds of people in Hong Kong were very clearly focused

after the events in Peking, and that is the part of the

Anner to the Joint Declaration that deals with internal

"The

order and the role of Chinesa Defence Forces after 1997.

I have the copy in front of me and it says:

maintenance of public order in the Hong Kong Special

Administration Region shall be the responsibility of the

-Hong Kong Special Administration Region Governmant“.

And

it goes on to say:

People's Government to be stationed in the Hong Kong

Special Administrative Region for the purpose of defence

shall not interfere in the laternal affairs of the Hong

Kong Special Administrative Region".

*Military forces sent by the Central

In the light of what has happened in Peking, would

it be possible to assert that those words which I have

just read would exclude the possibility, at least within

the framework of the Agreement, of any Peking Government

declaring Martial Law in the Special Administrative Region

of Hong Kong?

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