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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

Pacific Economic

Conference

(APEC)

held in

July 1990 re-affairmed "that APEC is a

Singapore

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Mr Stone

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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

Cours2

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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