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3.

The United

Kingdom

and the PRC have already

agreed that the Covenant as applied to Hong Kong should

continue to apply to the Hong Kong SAR after 30 June 1997.

The Joint Declaration contains the following text

'The

provisions of the International Covenant on

Civil and Political Rights and the International

Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

as applied to Hong Kong shall remain in force'

(last paragraph of Section XIII of Annex I to the

Joint Declaration).

Nevertheless,

British

the Chinese side may find it helpful if the

side were to set out further background and details

on how the Covenant applies in practice to Hong Kong.

Article 28 of the Covenant

4.

establishment

of

а

"Committee").

submitted to the

for

transmission to

provides for the

(the

Human Rights Committee

There is a requirement for reports to be

Secretary-General of the United Nations,

the, Committee, on the measures that