C. BASIC LAW
Objectives
General
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- To demonstrate to the Committee that, through our detailed
confidential discussions with the Chinese, improvements have
been made to many provisions of the Basic Law.
To make clear our view that Basic Law is on the whole an
acceptable reflection of Joint Declaration, although there
are inevitably some provisions we would have preferred to
have seen drafted differently.
Constitutional Court
To explain the role of the Committee on the Basic Law.
State of Emergency
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To point out that a state of emergency can only be declared by the mainland authorities in very limited and
extreme circumstances and that it would be difficult to
deprave them of the power to act if these extreme circumstances prevailed.
Stationing of PLA troops
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To convince the committee that it would be
counterproductive to pursue this point with the Chinese
authorities now but we shall revert when we judge the time
is right.
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