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JEOPARDISE HK'S SMOOTH TRANSITION. EFFORTS IN RECENT MONTHS TO INTERNATIONALISE THE HK QUESTION WOULD UNDERMINE HK'S PROSPERITY
AND STABILITY.
LEGCO
L =
CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CHIEF JIANG ZEMIN WAS QUOTED AS SAYING TO A HK DELEGATION THAT HE WAS CONCERNED THAT LEGCO WOULD BECOME TO0 POWERFUL IF IT ADOPTED A STANDING COMMITTEE SYSTEM. MR JIANG WAS UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE SAID THAT ANY CHANGES TO LEGCO HAD TO BE IN LINE WITH THE BL. SPEAKING TO ANOTHER HK DELEGATION, FORMER HK AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE DIRECTOR JI PENGFEI WAS QUOTED AS SAYING THAT ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT PROVIDED FOR IN THE BL COULD NOT SURVIVE THE TRANSITION TO CHINESE RULE. DIRECTOR OF THE HK AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE LU PING TOLD A BUSINESS DELEGATION IN PEKING THAT THE POST-1997 POLITICAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE ''EXECUTIVE- LED''
AND THAT THIS STIPULATION WAS IN LINE WITH THE INTEREST OF
HK PEOPLE.
LORD CAITHNESS
5. THE PEKING VISIT OF THE FCO MINISTER WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR HK, LORD CAITHNESS, WAS ACCORDED GOOD PRESS COVERAGE. WELCOMING LORD CAITHNESS, CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER TIAN ZHENGPEI SAID 928.11) THAT HE HOPED THAT SINO-BRITISH TIES WOULD BE FURTHER
IMPROVED. LORD CAITHNESS WAS RECEIVED BY CHINESE VICE-PREMIER ZOU JAHUA, FOREIGN MINISTER QIAN QICHEN AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE HK AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE, LU PING (29.11). LORD CAITHNESS SAID HE HAD EXCHANGED VIEWS WITH MR LU ON QUESTIONS RELATING TO EXCO AND LEGCO AND THE LEGCO DIRECT ELECTIONS. HE SAID BOTH SIDES HAD EXPRESSED HOPE THAT THE PACE OF WORK AT JLG COULD BE QUICKENED.
JLG
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THE 21ST ROUND OF JLG TALKS WOULD DISCUSS THE RENEWAL OF FRANCHISE FOR CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY AND THE USE OF MILITARY LANDS AFTER 1997. RADIO 3 (3.12) NOTED THAT THE CHINESE
SIDE WAS EXPECTED TO VOICE CONCERN OVER THE PROPOSED LEGCO
STANDING COMMITTEE SYSTEM.
CHINESE OFFICIALS
7. CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CHIEF JIANG ZEMIN TOLD A HK DELEGATION IN PEKING (27.11) THAT THE BASIC LAW COULD NOT BE
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