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FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 3634
OF 061030Z DECEMBER 90
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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NCNA STATEMENT ON TOWN PLANNING CAMENDMENT) BILL 1990
1. POLITICAL ADVISER SUMMONED JI SHAOXIANG THIS AFTERNOON AND
SPOKE AS INSTRUCTED.
2. JI'S RESPONSE WAS UNIMPRESSIVE EVEN BY HIS STANDARDS. HE SAID THAT THERE HAD BEEN A STRONG REACTION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WHEN THE BILL WAS PUBLISHED. A DELEGATION HAD GONE TO LONDON. THEY HAD ALSO APPROACHED NCNA IN HONG KONG WHO FELT THE CONCERNS OF NEW TERRITORIES RESIDENTS SHOULD BE GIVEN CAREFUL CONSIDERATION. AS THE CHINESE SIDE TO JI'S KNOWLEDGE HAD NOT BEEN CONSULTED BEFORE THE BILL'S PUBLICATION, IT FELT THAT IT SHOULD SPEAK OUT PUBLICLY. HE STRESSED SEVERAL TIMES THAT CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE
GIVEN TO QUOTE THE RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE JD AND BASIC LAW UNQUOTE. THE CHINESE SIDE COULD NOT ACCEPT THAT THEIR STATEMENT WAS INTERFERENCE.
3. EHRMAN FIRST ENQUIRED WHAT PROVISION IN THE JD NCNA HAD IN MIND. (WE ARE OF COURSE AWARE OF JD 53, AND INDEED JD 86, BUT BOTH ARE IN ANNEX 1, WHICH DESCRIBES CHINESE POLICIES TOWARDS HONG KONG AFTER 1 JULY 1997).
I.E. JD
4. JI REFERRED LAMELY TO PROVISIONS ON LAND IN ANNEX 3 205. EHRMAN SAID THAT THE SUBJECTS DEALT WITH IN JD 205 HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE TOWN PLANNING BILL. JI RETREATED TO QUOTE THE SPIRIT OF THE JD UNQUOTE, AND REFERRED TO THE BASIC LAW. EHRMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE BL WAS CHINESE LAW (AS THEY HAD ALWAYS STRESSED) WHICH WOULD COME INTO EFFECT AFTER 1997.
5. EHRMAN WENT ON TO EMPHASISE THAT NCNA'S STATEMENT YESTERDAY REFERRED TO THE PRESENT PASSAGE OF A BILL THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. HE AGAIN REMINDED JI OF THE TERMS OF THE JD WHICH WERE VERY CLEAR THAT UP TO 30 JUNE 1997 THE U K WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG. THE BILL BEFORE LEGCO WAS
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