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SINO-PORTUGUESE JOINT DECLARATION ON MACAU

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A Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the future of Macau was signed in Peking on 13 April by the Chinese Premier, Zhao Ziyang, and the Portuguese Prime Minister, Cavaco Silva, following nine months of negotiations. A copy of an English translation of the

Joint Declaration is attached. It provides for Macau, like Hong

Kong, to become a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. The

Macau SAR will be established on 20 December 1999. Both Governments

welcomed the agreement as a successful settlement of the question of Macau and a positive development in Sino-Portuguese relations.

2. The Macau Joint Declaration is very similar to the Joint

Declaration on Hong Kong. Most of the differences between the provisions of the two are fairly minor or arise from objective differences between Hong Kong and Macau, for example in relation to the judicial and financial systems. The Department has now prepared B a detailed comparison between the two, a copy of which is attached.

The most significant of the various differences are:

a) The Macau agreement stipulates that the majority of members of

the legislature are to be elected; the Hong Kong agreement stipulates that the legislature will be constituted by

elections. This reflects the present rather rudimentary state

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