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meetings

of the

Committee

and

provide

information in

respect

of

questions

to relating

Hong Kong.

Those

have

spoken at the Committee in respect of

representatives

matters affecting Hong Kong. The Chinese side may find it

helpful, in connection with

that they will be

reports on the Hong Kong SAR

making to the Committee after 1997, to

have

copies

the

reports and other relevant

papers

emanating from the Committee.

They are at Annex F,

Benefits

protection

of the

rights

7.

The application of the Covenant to Hong Kong

underlines the Hong Kong

Government's commitment to the

and freedoms in Hong Kong. Its

continued

application

after

1997 will

demonstrate

that

these

and rights

freedoms will remain

unchanged,

in

accordance with the provisions of the JD and BL.

Proposals

8.

and

Given that the Governments of the United Kingdom

the People's Republic of China have already agreed that

Covenant should continue to apply to the Hong Kong SAR

(see paragraph

the

3 above), it remains necessary only for the

Government of the PRC in some appropriate way to indicate

to all present Contracting Parties, and all Governments

which may become parties before 1 July 1997 that all the

international rights and

arising obligations

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