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Declaration.

To achieve this result, it will be necessary

for the CPG to indicate to all present Contracting Parties , Governments which may become parties before 1 July

and all

1997, that all the international

arising

rights and obligations

from the Convention and the Protocol, to the extent

that they apply to Hong Kong, will be assumed by the CPG with effect from 1 July 1997 and apply to the HKSAR of the

It will further be necessary to ensure so far as possible that those Contracting Parties either agree, or at

In the opinion of the British side, the

PRC.

least acquiesce.

best method for

securing

this objective would be as

described in para. 7 of the paper handed to the Chinese

side on 15 March 1989.

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