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STANCE WAS DUE TO MEETINGS LU PING HAD HAD WITH HONG KONG AFFAIRS ADVISERS AND AIRPORT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, WHO HAD REFLECTED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEW AIRPORT TO HONG KONG AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY FOR HUANGTIAN AIRPORT TO TAKE ITS PLACE.
INTERNATIONALISATION.
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PRESS REPORTS OF 16 MAY NOTED THAT IN RESPONSE TO LADY THATCHER'S REMARKS THAT HONG KONG WAS IN MANY WAYS
INTERNATIONALISED, NCNA VICE DIRECTOR ZHANG JUNSHENG HAD REITERATED THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ALLOW FOREIGN FORCES TO MEDDLE IN HONG KONG ISSUES, ADDING THAT BRINGING FOREIGN POLITICAL FORCES TO HONG KONG WOULD ONLY DAMAGE ITS STABILITY AND PROSPERITY. ZHANG SAID THAT INTERNATIONALISATION AND BEING AN INTERNATIONAL CITY WERE DIFFERENT THINGS.
7. AN ARTICLE IN TODAY'S WEN WEI PO COMMENTED THAT WHILE HONG KONG WAS AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCIAL CENTRE, IT SHOULD NOT BECOME POLITICALLY INTERNATIONALISED. THE ARTICLE SAID THAT LADY THATCHER'S PRAGMATIC APPROACH IN THE TALKS ON THE JD WOULD
BE A USEFUL EXAMPLE FOR THE CURRENT TALKS.
SAR PRELIMINARY WORK ORGAN.
8. THE PAPERS REPORTED ON 16 MAY NPC DEPUTY MS LIU YIU-CHU'S MEETING WITH LU PING IN MACAU. MS LIU TOLD REPORTERS THAT LU HAD SAID THAT NO MATTER WHAT THE OUTCOME OF THE CURRENT TALKS, THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD CONTINUE THEIR PREPARATIONS ON TWO FRONTS FOR HONG KONG ISSUES. SHE SAID SETTING UP THE PRELIMINARY WORK ORGAN FOR THE SAR PREPARATORY COMMITTEE WOULD BE ONE OF THEM. SOME REPORTS QUOTED MS LIU AS SAYING THAT THE NPC STANDING COMMITTEE WOULD LIKELY FINALISE DETAILS FOR THE ORGAN AT THE END OF JUNE AND HONG KONG PEOPLE WOULD BE CONSULTED. BUT A FEW OTHERS NOTED
THAT THIS HAD BEEN DENIED BY LU PING.
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