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As the Joint Declaration makes clear, the two UN Covenants on

There is no Rights will continue to apply to Hong Kong after 1997. dispute with the Chinese on this: it is fully reflected in the current draft of the Basic Law. Since the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to give clear effect in local law to the provisions of one of those Covenants, it is difficult to see what objections the Chinese authorities might have.

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