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5. THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH YAZHOU ZHOUKAN, SAID THAT RECENT INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVOLVING CIVIL SERVANTS WERE MAINLY CAUSED BY THEIR WORRIES ABOUT THEIR FUTURE FOLLOWING THE EVENTS OF LAST SUMMER IN PEKING AND THE QUESTION OF 1997. HE SAID THAT MOST CIVIL SERVANTS HOPED THAT THEIR FUTURE COULD BE GUARANTEED IN A MORE SUBSTANTIALLY WAY. ZHOU NAN SAID THAT CIVIL SERVANTS SHOULD HAVE FAITH IN CHINA, ADDING THAT CHINA HAD A GOOD TRACK RECORD OF ABIDING BY INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
BILL OF RIGHTS
6. THE MEDIA (28.6) ACCORDED PROMINENT AND EXTENSIVE COVERAGE TO A LEGCO DEBATE ON THE DRAFT BILL OF RIGHTS. THE REPORTS NOTED THAT 30 LEGCO MEMBERS SPOKE AT THE DEBATE AND THAT 22 OF THEM HAD CLEARLY INDICATED THAT THEY SUPPORTED THE BILL. SOME MEMBERS WERE WORRIED THAT THE BILL WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED BY CHINA. THEY URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO EXPLAIN THE ENACTMENT OF THE BILL TO CHINA IN AN ATTEMPT TO ENSURE THAT THE BILL WOULD CONTINUE TO BE ENFORCED AFTER 1997. TWO PRO-CHINA LEGISLATORS, HO SAI-CHU AND TAM YIU-CHUNG, WERE AGAINST THE BILL.
7. A FEW INDEPENDENT PAPERS CALLED ON CHINA NOT TO OPPOSE THE BILL. THEY BELIEVED THAT STRONG CRITICISM OF THE BILL FROM CHINA MIGHT UNDERMINE HK PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE. FORMER MAINLAND BL DRAFTER XIAO WEIYUN SAID THAT A BILL OF RIGHTS SHOULD CONVERGE WITH THE BL, THE EXPRESS (1.7) REPORTED. WEN WEI PO (1.7) REPORTED THAT 27 RURAL COMMITTEES PLANNED TO ISSUE AN OPEN STATEMENT TO BACK THE HEUNG YEE KUK, WHICH HAD ARGUED THAT THE ENACTMENT OF A BILL OF RIGHTS WOULD LEAD TO CONFUSION OVER THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE TO PROPERTY IN THE
NEW TERRITORIES.
MAUDE VISIT
8. WEN WEI PO (2.7), IN A EDITORIAL, WELCOMED FCO MINISTER FRANCIS MAUDE'S COMING VISIT TO PEKING AND SAID THAT HK PEOPLE HOPED THAT THE VISIT WOULD BE A SUCCESS SO THAT CHINA AND BRITAIN WOULD RETURN TO CLOSE CO-OPERATION, HELPING RESTORE HK PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE. HOWEVER, THE PAPER POINTED OUT THAT DURING THE SUSPENSION OF HIGH- LEVEL CONTACTS BETWEEN CHINA AND BRITAIN IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS, BRITAIN HAD UNILATERALLY INTRODUCED THE NATIONALITY PACKAGE, A DRAFT BILL OF RIGHTS AND MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS. THIS HAD CAUSED CHINA'S CONCERN BECAUSE IT WAS WORRIED WHETHER THE JD WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED FAITHFULLY.
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