1989-06-12
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TRANSCRIPT B: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989
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SIR DAVID VILSON:
I would have thought that it is more a question of
adding things on to it, adding things that are said
actions on to it, rather than trying to start re-
Once you open up an existing treaty to
negotiating.
you
make
which both governments have committed themselves,
the thing open-ended and you do not know what you will
come out with at the end.
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to
My concept of remedial work is things added to the
Joint Declaration statements made, actions taken
give people greater faith in what is in the Joint
Declaration, rather than the re-negotiating of the termS
of
a treaty which both governments are committed to.
MR.
IVAN LAWRENCE:
On the assumption, which I think you share with me,
that the Chinese Government will now have to make more
I
determined moves to restore confidence in Hong Kong, can
come to a matter that I think we discussed with you last
time you sat in this room, on the Basic Law, and that was
the confusion which exists over whether the courts of law
in Hong Kong, based as they are on the Hong Kong British
tradition and the Common Law, will remain the court of
final adjudication or whether the other Articles than
Article 31 In the Chinese Constitution will ever supersede
that which gives independent judiciary an existence in
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