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Exchange of Notes or PRC declaration.

There would be

no

need to include those multilateral treatles

to which the

the SAR.

PRC is a party (referred to in para 3(1) above), simply in order to secure their continued application to

However in the Interests of clarity and completeness they

Also all in the list. Included in

the should be

establishing

International

organisations

treatles

in whose

a

two

activities the SAR was to continue to participate would need to be put on the list (whether or not the PRC was party to them). So too would each treaty which the sides have already agreed, or may in future agree, should continue to apply to Hong Kong after 1997.

6.

The three great advantages of option (c) and (d) over (a) and (b) in para 3(2) above are

(1)

all

the

and

that there would be greater clarity and certainty

about

rights International

obligations which, having applied with advantage

to continue to apply to

to Hong Kong, were

SAR;

the

(ii) that either of them would considerably reduce the

diplomatic effort required by

because many of the

unlikely to

be

the two sides,

on the items

the list would be

by challenged

the

other

therefore no further

governments concerned, and

specific action would need to be taken with those

governments in respect of those items; and

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