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Chinese Comments on "Unreasonable demands"

Official/Sources

Comments

Appendix IV

18.7.93

/Commentators

Jiang Enzhu as quoted by Lau Siu-kai, an

SARPC PEC member

20.7.93

CNA dispatch

The British demands for participation in the SARPC, for the legislature to be wholly returned by direct elections, and for the Election committee set up in 1995 to become the Selection Committee to choose the first SAR chief executive all fall within Chinese sovereign rights and can never be

discussed. China will make no concessions or compromise.

If the British side really wishes to raise at the talks its demands for a role in the SARPC and the Selection Committee, the talks will inevitably enter an impasse as these demands infringe on China's sovereign rights.

26.7.93

Wen Wei Po editorial

Mr

The "four unreasonable demands" by Mr Patten are contrary to BL stipulations. Patten is trying to create a precedent that the British dictate things after 1997. a sovereign state, China will never agree to his unreasonable demands. Even the JD will not allow this to happen.

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