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particuarly concerned for the 3.2 million people there who have have British dependent territy citizenship certificates but not British passports.
In 1990 Britain announced only 250,000 Hong Kong citizens would be British passports.
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Britain needed to make sure China's Basic Law for Hong Kong became part; to the ICJ's covenant on civil and political rights.
This meant there would be an international means of enforcing human rights.
The ICJ decided i in June 1991 that it was important to monitor the Britain-Chinese agreement, or Basic Law, after Tiananmen Square.
announced in 1990 particularly
"There was a degree of confidence until Tiananmen Square, But now people in Hong Kong realised the repressive regime in Beijing
Mr Dowd said. would not let them have democracy in the way they thought they were entitled to.
The ICJ is a non-government organisation run in consultation with UNESCC (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) founded ir 1952 with the task of defending the rule of law throughout the world.
It comprises 30 distinguised jurists from around the globe.
In addition to My Dowd, the three others who compiled the Countdown To 1997 report were Sir William Goodhart, QC, of Britian; Y.M Raja Aziz Addruse, former president of the Malaysian Bar Council and Hans-Heiner Kuhne, law professor from the University of Trier in Germany.
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