05-JAN-1993 15:38
CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS BR
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Q.
You mean China had not been deceived?
A.
We took steps to protect ourselves. not abide by the agreement, we
provision.
If the British do
could use this
Q.
Are
there any more secret deals between the two countries?
Can you assure Hong Kong people that no more diplomatic documents would be divulged in future restricting us from doing this or that?
A.
It's hard to say.
agreements.
confidential.
The two Governments negotiated some Some of these have to be made
You can see from Annex II of the Joint
Declaration the work of the Joint Liaison Group. Discussions in the JLG are kept confidential. Diplomacy requires confidentiality. I can't rule out this possibility.
Q.
A.
You've said that China is prepared stove. How would you actually build it?
to build a new
setting up the first
Let me first explain what a stove means. This stove basically means the method of
government and the legislature.
new stove?
convergence.
Why would we need a
We'll need it when there is no
Under the Basic Law there would be a "through train". If there were pre- and post-97 convergence, then there's no question of a new stove. This stove has to be built according to the Joint Declaration, the Basic Law and previous agreements and understandings reached by both countries. Only a stove built under these conditions could continue to
be used after 1997. If the stove is not built upon
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