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INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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15 MAY 1993
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CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: PRESS REPORTS
CHINESE SOURCES
QUOTING CCP SOURCES IN PEKING, UNITED DAILY NEWS REPORTED TODAY (13 MAY) THAT IN A RECENT IMPORTANT BRIEFING, THE SENIOR FIGURES OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY HAD REITERATED THEIR OFFICIAL STAND ON THE POLITICAL ROW AND ASKED RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS TO TOE THE SAME LINE IN MAKING PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE CHINESE POSITION WAS THAT THE CHINESE AND BRITISH SIDES HAD TO CONDUCT THEIR NEGOTIATIONS AND CO-OPERATION IN THE LATTER PART OF THE TRANSITION ON THE BASIS OF THE JD AND PREVIOUS UNDERSTANDINGS AND AGREEMENTS SO AS TO ENSURE A SMOOTH TRANSITION. THE KEY WOULD NOW BE FOR THE BRITISH SIDE TO GIVE UP THE GOVERNOR'S PACKAGE AND RETURN TO THE THREE COMPLIANCES. THE HONG KONG QUESTION WAS A MATTER BETWEEN CHINA AND BRITAIN. NO THIRD PARTY SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN IT.
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2. SUN YANHENG GAVE A PRESS BRIEFING YESTERDAY ON THE OUTCOME OF THE RECENT LAND COMMISSION MEETING. PRESS REPORTS PLAYED UP HIS REMARKS ON CT9, WHICH HE SAID WAS NOT A QUESTION OF LAND GRANT, BUT INVOLVED COMPLEX MATTERS WHICH HAD TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE JLG. IF AGREEMENT COULD BE REACHED IN THE JLG, BOTH SIDES COULD FURTHER EXCHANGE VIEWS IN THE LC. ASKED WHY THE CHINESE HAD AGREED TO THE LAND GRANT LAST YEAR, SUN REPLIED THAT THE CHINESE SIDE HAD TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AT THE TIME THE IMPORTANCE OF CT9 TO HONG KONG. HE ALSO STRESSED THAT THE CHINESE SIDE HOPED TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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ON THE LAND FOR THE NEW AIRPORT PROJECT, SUN SAID THAT SINCE THE MATTER WAS INTERLOCKED WITH THE FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS, THE LAND ALLOCATION FOR THE PROJECT COULD NOT BE SINGLED OUT FOR DISCUSSION. THE MATTER HAD TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE AIRPORT COMMITTEE.
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