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MDLIAN 34
POLITICAL GROUPS
12. THE ASSOCIATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOOD WOULD SEND A 10-MEMBER DELEGATION TO PEKING. MEMBERS WOULD MEET LU PING AND NPC STANDING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
13. MEETING POINT HAD BEEN RESTRUCTURED TO BECOME A POLITICAL PARTY CHAIRED BY ANTHONY CHEUNG BING-LEUNG. MR CHEUNG SAID THE PARTY WOULD SUPPORT A DEMOCRATIC REUNION AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH CHINA. ITS MEMBERS WOULD TAKE PART IN LOCAL ELECTIONS AS WELL AS ELECTIONS TO THE NPC. AMONG THOSE JOINING THE PARTY WAS LEGISLATOR LEUNG CHE-HUNG, FORMERLY OF THE HK DEMOCRATIC FOUNDATION.
JLG
14.
MEDIA REPORTS NOTED (21.9) THE 24TH ROUND OF JLG MEETING OPENED IN LONDON. MILITARY LAND, EXTRADITION, ASAS, FRANCHISES AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION AGREEMENTS WERE AMONG ITEMS TO BE
DISCUSSED.
DOUGLAS HURD/QIAN QICHEN MEETING
15.
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DOUGLAS HURD AND HIS CHINESE COUNTERPART QIAN QICHEN WOULD MEET AT THE COMING SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND DISCUSS BILATERAL RELATIONS, HK AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES OF MUTUAL INTEREST, ACCORDING TO WU JIAMIN OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY (18.9). SOME PAPERS NOTED THAT THE BRITISH JLG TEAM LEADER, ANTHONY GALSWORTHY AND HIS CHINESE COUNTERPART, GUO FENGMIN, AND THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MICHAEL SZE WOULD GO TO NEW YORK TO ASSIST IN THE
DISCUSSIONS.
RIGHT OF ABODE FOR FOREIGNERS
16. LU PING AND ZHU RONGJI WERE QUOTED AS TELLING DELEGATES OF THE HK BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THAT (19.9) THE STATUS OF FOREIGNERS AFTER 1997 HAD BEEN PROVIDED BY THE BL WHICH STIPULATED THAT THOSE WHO USUALLY LIVED IN HK FOR 7 YEARS WOULD QUALIFY FOR THE RIGHT OF ABODE.
MACAU 17.
MACAU'S LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS WERE GIVEN GOOD COVERAGE IN THE LOCAL PAPERS (21.9). THE HK DAILY NEWS NOTED THAT LU PING HAD SAID MACAU'S SYSTEM OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION WAS WORTH STUDYING.
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