F. JLG HÙNG KHUNG
WED 12 JUN 91 15:07.
Hong Kong's Participation in APEC
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The second Ministerial-level Meeting of the
Asian
燃
Pacific Economic
Conference
(APEC)
held in
July 1990 re-affairmed "that APEC is a
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refes.
non-formal forum for
consultations among high level representatives of
with
strong and
Pacific region".
increasing
economic
economies
linkages in the Asian
It acknowledged "the particularly
the three economies of China, Taiwan and
significant role of the
Hong Kong"
and
agreed
that "consultations
should proceed
with the three economies, with
view the
Of reaching
arrangements
agreeable
to those three and
to the current
members of APEC for all three to participate in APEC at
(Relevant extracts from the APEC II statement
the
same
time".
is annexed.)
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AS an economy
linkages
in
with strong and increasing economic
the Asian Pacific region, Hong Kong is
interested to participate fully in
propose
full a to join APEC as
the APEC process.
participant,
We
though not
of
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as
a sovereign state,
the time of admission, we propose to make
all APEC meetings and
Hong Kong will participate fully in
activities as an economy. We will also say in the statement
in the
name of Hong Kong.
At
a statement
that
that the designation of
Kong, China" after 1997
"Hong Kong" will change
when Hong Kong
to "Hong
becomes
Special
Administrative Region of China.
sufficiently clear that Hong Kong will not
APEC in the capacity of a sovereign state.
This should make it
participate in
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