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FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 10
OF 040956Z JANUARY 93
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
5 JAN 1993
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INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
In Burntly 2
022267
MDHIAN 4123
p.a.
TOP COPY Q DIST
CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: LU PING'S INTERVIEW WITH HKTVB
1. LOCAL MEDIA TODAY GAVE PROMINENT COVERAGE TO LU PING'S INTERVIEW WITH HKTVB (BROADCAST ON 3 JANUARY). VERY LITTLE WAS NEW IN LU'S REMARKS. THE TONE WAS GENERALLY NON-CONFRONTATIONAL, BUT LU CLARIFIED CERTAIN POINTS WHICH HE HIMSELF AND QIAN QICHEN HAD MADE DURING DAB'S RECENT VISIT TO PEKING.
'SEPARATE STOVE'
2.(I) LU SAID THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR A SEPARATE STOVE IF THE GOVERNOR WITHDREW THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS. EVEN IF SUCH A STOVE WERE SET UP, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SAR PREPARATORY COMMITTEE WOULD NOT BE BROUGHT FORWARD.
(II) THE CHINESE SIDE WERE CONSIDERING SETTING UP AN ADVISORY BODY TO CONSULT HK PEOPLE ON ALL TRANSITION-RELATED MATTERS. NO FIRM VIEWS HAD BEEN TAKEN ON THE COMPOSITION OF SUCH A BODY. BUT IT WOULD NOT BE A SECOND POWER CENTRE IN HONG KONG.
(III) THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD NOT DRAW A LINE BETWEEN THOSE IN HONG KONG WHO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS AND THOSE WHO DID NOT. LU MAINTAINED THAT THE VAST MAJORITY IN HONG KONG WERE PATRIOTIC AND DID NOT WANT CONFRONTATION WITH CHINA.
CONTRACTS AND FRANCHISES
3. MAJOR CONTRACTS AND FRANCHISES STRADDLING 1997 WOULD HAVE TO BE DISCUSSED IN THE JLG. THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD ADOPT A VERY POSITION AND RESPONSIBLE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THESE CONTRACTS ETC., INCLUDING THOSE ON CT9 AND PAY TV. AS FOR THE OTHER CONTRACTS MADE BY HKG, THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD MAKE A BLANKET STATEMENT TO ENSURE THEIR CONTINUED VALIDITY WHEN THE TIME COMES'. LU ALSO REITERATED THE SAFEGUARDS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS UNDER THE JD AND THE
BL.
MINISTERIAL MEETING UNDER THE MOU
4. QUOTING FROM A TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING BETWEEN QIAN QICHEN
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