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NATIONALITY RESTRICTIONS DESIGNED TO ALLOW PEKING TO PUT

THEIR PEOPLE IN

- The Joint Declaration clearly provides that the legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be composed of local inhabitants.

NATIONALITY RESTRICTIONS ARE VIOLATION OF JOINT DECLARATION

No.

The only relevant provision in the Joint Declaration is that which provides that the legislature shall be composed of local inhabitants. So long as that condition is fulfilled, it does not follow that the Joint Declaration excludes the addition of other compatible qualifications for legislators.

DENAAQ(6)