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RKAKAS LIEL BEGIN TOVARY HONG KONGE
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HONG KONG (AP) - CHINA ON WEDNESDAY FURTHER HARDENED ITS POSITION TOWARD HONG KONG BY BECIDING THAT TOP OFFICIALS IN THE TERRITORY'S POST-1997 GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO LI ARROGS, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT RADIO SAID,
R TOP CHINESE OFFICIAL ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT HONG KONG RESIDEN WITH BRITISH PASSPORTS HOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO SEEK BRITISH CONSULAR PROTECTION WHILE IN THE TERRITORY AFTER IT RETURNS TO CHINESE RULE IN SEVEN YEARS.
LAST MONTH, CHINA OUTLAWED #BSUBVERSIVE GROUPS'' FROM OPERAT IN THE TERRITORY AFTER 1997.
THE BASIC LAW ERAFTING COMMITTEE: WHICH IS WRITING THE BLUEPI FOR POST-1997 HONG KONG, DECIDED IN CANTON THAT THE TERRITORY'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE, ITS PRINCIPAL OFFICERS AND ALL OF ITS EXECUTIVE COUNCILLORS WOULD NOT BE GRANTED THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.
GOVERNMENT RADIO SAIB THE COMMITTEE HAN'T BECIDED WHETHER TO BAN THE TERRITORY'S TWO TOP JUDGES AND ALL OF ITS LEGISLATORS FRO POSSESSING THE RIGHT TO LIVE ABROAD.
UNDER THE BASIC LAW, HONG KONG'S TOP OFFICIALS ALREADY ARE PROHIBITED FROM HOLDING A FOREIGN PASSPORT. THE COMMITTEE'S ROVE HARKED & FURTHER RESTRICTION ON POLITICIANS' ACTIVITIES, PROHIBITING THEM FROM HOLBING, FOR EXAMPLE, A RESIDENCE PERMIT FO CANADA OR BRITAIN.
THE DECISION APPERRED TO BE A REACTION TO BRITAIN'S PROPOSAL I DECEMBER TO OFFER PASSPORTS TO 50,880 KET HONG KONG OFFICIALS AND PROFESSIONALS AS PART OF A SECURITY NET.
CONFIDENCE IN CHINE'S PROMISE TO MAINTAIN HONG KONG'S FREE-THEELING CAPITELIST SYSTEM FOR 30 YEARS AFTER IT TAKES DUER HAS BEEN SHREEK SINCE THE BLOODY JUNE 4 MILITARY CRACKDOWN ON B MOVEMENT FOR BEMOCRACY IN BEIJING,
BRITAIN HEB SAID I HOPED THE PASSPORT PACKAGE WOULD BOOST CONFIDENCE SY ENCOURAGING THE KEY RESIDENTS TO STAY IN THE TERRITORY BY GIVING THEN A LAST RESORT,
BUT CHIMR SAYS THE PACKAGE VIOLATES THE 1984 AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH BRETRIN WILL HAND THE COLONY BACK TO CHINA.
LE PINE, THE DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE BRAFTING COMMITTEE ALSO SAID THE BRITISH CONSULOTE IN HONG KONG HOULD BE PROHIBITED FROM HELPING HONG KOKE RESIDENTS WITH BRITISH PASSPORTS AFTER 1997. LU'S STATEKENT DIRECTLY CONTRADICTED ASSURANCES MADE TUESDAY BY BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY BOUGLAS HURD, WHO SAID ALL HONG KONG RESIDENTS WITH BRITISH PASSPORTS WOULD BE GRANTED SUCH PROTECTION. CHINA BOES NOT RECOGNIZE PEOPLE HOLDING BURL CITIZENSHIP, SU MEIYUN, THE CHINESE CONVEKER OF THE COMMITTEE, CALLED THE BEBATES A QUESTION OF CELOYALTY."
IF PEOPLE HAVE FOREIGN PASSPORTS AND TAKE UP TOP JOBS, WHRT WOULD YOU THINK, HE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING IN WEBNESBRY'S EDITIONS OF THE MEN VEI PO, A LEADING HONG KONG CHINESE-LANEUAGE HEXSPAPER.
THE COMMITTEE IS EXPECTED TO FINISH DRAFTING THE BASIC LAW IN FOUR BAYS, THEN IT HILL GO TO CHINA'S PARLIAMENT, THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS, FOR A LARGELY CEREMONIAL VOTE IN MARCH,
STILL TO BE BECIDED ARE QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE PERCENTAGE OF HONG KONE'S 66 LEGISLATORS TO BE DIRECTLY ELECTED AFTER THE 1997 TRANSFER OF PONER, CHIER HAS SAID THE MAXIMUM WILL BE AROUND 30 F but Hong Kong police's war al last 30 PERCENT TO BE
VOTED IN.
CHERENTLY, NO LEGISLATORS ARE BIRECTLY ELECTED,
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