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REPORTS NOTED (28.12) THE RETURN OF A DAB DELEGATION FROM PEKING. DAB'S CHAIRMAN TSANG YOK-SING WAS QUOTED AS SAYING THAT THE TRIP HAD ACHIEVED THE EXPECTED RESULTS AND THEY HAD REFLECTED HK PEOPLE'S CONCERN AND HOPES TO THE CHINESE LEADERS. MR TSANG SAID LU PING'S EXPLANATIONS HAD ADDRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT SETTING UP OF 'ANOTHER STOVE' AND VALIDITY OF CONTRACTS STRADDLING 1997. ACCORDING TO MR. LU, THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD NOT SET UP A POWER CENTRE NOR A SHADOW GOVERNMENT NOW. WITH REGARDS TO CONTRACTS STRADDLING 1997, ANYONE ENTERING INTO SUCH CONTRACTS SHOULD URGE THE BRITISH HKG TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE IN THE JLG AND RESOLVE THE QUESTION WITH CHINESE AGREEMENT: THIS WOULD BE IN ACCORDANCE TO THE INTERESTS OF INVESTORS. MR TSANG SAID HE WOULD NOT BE PASSING ANY MESSAGE FROM THE CHINESE SIDE WHEN HE MET WITH THE GOVERNOR NEXT MONTH. HE WOULD ONLY REFLECT DAB'S OWN VIEWS ON HOW TO ENSURE A SMOOTH TRANSITION IN
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TAIWAN 18.
TAIWAN'S EXECUTIVE YUAN HAD ENDORSED A PROPOSAL TO GRANT PERMANENT RESIDENCY TO FOUR PROFESSIONAL GROUPS OF HK PEOPLE. THEY INCLUDED TEACHERS/SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, PROFESSIONALS SUCH AS LAWYERS/ACCOUNTANTS/DOCTORS, AND PEOPLE WHO EXCELLED IN SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL FIELDS AND IN THE MEDIA.
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19 THE TAIWANESE FOREIGN MINISTER FREDERICK CHIEN WAS QUOTED AS SAYING (29.12) THERE WOULD BE NO ROOM FOR ANY ACTIVITIES OF HIS MINISTRY IN HK AFTER 1997 EXCEPT THOSE CONFINED TO FACILITATION OF TOURISM. MR CHIEN NOTED THAT AFTER 1997, HK WOULD BE IN A DELICATE POSITION: THEY COULD NOT REGARD HK AS IF IT WERE ANOTHER ANY OTHER PART OF CHINA AND IT WOULD NOT BE FOREIGN COUNTRY.
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