1989-06-12 17:30 COI RADIO TECH SERVICES.
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TRANSCRIPT B: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
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MR. IAN TAYLOR (CONTD) :
Given that that is stated implicitly in the Jolat Declaration and indeed, in the elaboration in Annex 1 it says that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
should be enabled to carry on Hong Kong's capitalist
system and lifestyle for those 50 years
―
what
recommendations will you be making to the Foreign
Secretary as to the ways in which the British Government
should now be considering it can carry out those
obligations beyond 1997?
SIR DAVID WILSON :
I would not like to leave the impression, if I did, that I said "back to the drawing board" on the whole of
the Draft Basic Law.
What I said was that the process of consultation ought now surely to be extended and people would want to look particularly closely at certain parts of it.
Most of the Draft Basic Law is pretty good and that is not changed by all the awful things that have happened recently. What has changed is the timing of the process
and the need, as I would see it, to look particularly
carefully at certain sections,
No comments yet.
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