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AFFAIRS ADVISER CHENG KAI-NAM DURING HIS VISIT TO PEKING WHERE HE SECURED LU PING'S CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT. THE PAPER REPORTED THAT BOTH LU PING AND ZHOU NAN HAD BEEN INVITED TO BE HONORARY ADVISERS TO THE JOINT CONFERENCE WHICH WOULD LAUNCH A SERIES OF ACTIVITIES COSTING MORE THAN DOLLARS 10 M TO PROMOTE THE BL.

QIAN QICHEN

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WEN WEI PO AND TA KUNG (31.7) IN PROMINENT COVERAGE REPORTED AN INTERVIEW WITH QIAN QICHEN CARRIED IN THE AUGUST ISSUE OF THE BAUHINIA MAGAZINE. ON SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS, QIAN SAID CO- OPERATION HAD ALL ALONG BEEN GOOD SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE JO IN 1984. BUT IN THE PAST YEAR THE CHINESE AND BRITISH SIDES HAD, OVER THE HK QUESTION, ENCOUNTERED DIFFICULTIES IN NEGOTIATION AND CO- OPERATION. SOMEONE HAD SAID HK WOULD BECOME A POLITICAL CITY AND THE SITUATION WAS DIFFERENT. THEN SHOULD SINO-BRITISH AGREEMENTS BE UPHELD? THIS WAS A SOLEMN QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE THAT HAD TO BE DEALT WITH SERIOUSLY. ON THE TALKS, QIAN SAID THE CHINESE SIDE HOPED TO REACH AN AGREEMENT AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. TO ACHIEVE THIS, BOTH SIDES SHOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS AND HK'S STABILITY AND PROSPERITY AND RESTORE TRUST AND CO-OPERATION ON THE BASIS OF THE THREE CONFORMITIES AND WORK ALONG THE PATH OF THE JD. ON THE PWC QIAN SAID ITS MAIN TASK WAS TO CONDUCT STUDIES TO ENSURE CONVERGENCE WITH THE BL ON POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ISSUES AND TO SUBMIT VIEWS AND SUGGESTIONS. QIAN ALSO RECALLED REMARKS BY DENG XIAOPING DURING HIS MEETING WITH MARGARET THATCHER IN 1982. QIAN QUOTED DENG AS SAYING THERE WERE THREE QUESTIONS CONCERNING HK: SOVEREIGNTY, HOW CHINA WAS TO MANAGE HK AFTER 1997 TO MAINTAIN ITS STABILITY, AND THE CHINESE AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS HAD TO DISCUSS HOW TO ENABLE THERE WOULD BE NO BIG DISTURBANCES IN HK DURING THE TRANSITION. DENG SAID, IN ANNOUNCING CHINA WOULD TAKE BACK HK IN 1997, SMALL DISTURBANCES WERE INEVITABLE. BUT IF BOTH SIDES HAD A CO-OPERATIVE ATTITUDE IN RESOLVING THIS ISSUE, BIG TURBULENCES WOULD BE AVOIDED.

CHEN ZIYING

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HKMAO CHEN ZIYING, SPEAKING TO A HK DELEGATION IN PEKING (30.7) SAID HE HOPED THE ''PERSON WHO CREATED THE INCIDENT OF POLITICAL REFORMS'' IN LAST OCTOBER WOULD LEARN A LESSON AND TAKE THE INTERESTS OF HK PEOPLE INTO ACCOUNT AND WOULD NOT REPEAT HIS ACTIONS THIS YEAR. HE SAID THAT THE CHINESE HOPED TO LOOK FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE, BUT WOULD NOT COMPROMISE ON MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE. ON THROUGH TRAIN CHEN SAID THE REQUIREMENTS HAD BEEN STIPULATED IN THE BL AND RELEVANT NPC RESOLUTIONS. CHEN REITERATED HE HOPED THE TALKS WOULD YIELD POSITIVE RESULTS ON THE BASIS OF THE THREE

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