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THATSCRIPT B: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG

12 JUNE 1989

MR. PETER SHORE:

Article 18 of the Draft Basic Law does not seem to

be wholly satisfactory for that purpose as it is presently

drafted and I must say it does not seem to me to follow

inevitably from the draft Agreement

read out earlier on.

What would you' Bay to that?

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Section 12 which I

SIR DAVID WILSON :

The point I would make on all of this is that in

light of what has been happening recently, these are precisely the points that people will want to concentrate

as

on and the objective will be surely to try to ensure far as one possibly can that Hong Kong is isolated from this sort of declaration of a state of turmoil from the

centre; that, for instance, the sort of peaceful

demonstrations we had in Hong Kong could never be declared simply by flat from Peking to be a state of turmoil; there would be a Hong Kong element in determining when, if ever, things had got beyond the control of the local Security forces and buttressing as much as possible the

that

way in which local security forces would be responsible

for order within Hong Kong,