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that sensitive files kept by the police in Hong Kong would

remain in the hands of the SARG, adding that the Chinese

administration would not file charges against civil servants in connection with their past duties.

D2.

Jiang Zemin said that members of the Civil Service

"should not worry" (report by DAB on its discussions in

Peking, TKP, WWP 25 July 1992).

D3.

Speaking to members of the Chinese Civil Servants Association Lu Ping said that China hoped that civil servants working in Hong Kong before 1997 would stay on and

did not wish to see a big turnover of staff in 1997, but he

added that this was conditional on both sides acting

according to the JD and Basic Law. He said that the rules of the game were the Basic Law and warned of the consequences of not playing by the rules, adding that China would take a responsible attitude and would certainly not

cause chaos. Referring to the principle of "Hong Kong people running Hong Kong", he said: "matters are not so simple; the SARG has not yet been set up; we cannot avoid

getting involved (buneng bu quan)". (TKP, WWP 27 Oct 1992).

D4.

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At a meeting with a delegation of the Senior

Non-Expatriate Officers' Association in Peking on 16

November 1992, Lu Ping said that there could not be

convergence for the Executive and Judiciary if it was not effective for the Legislature. He added that non-convergence would have an adverse impact on civil servants (according to TKP 17 November 1992; a report in

WWP of the same date rendered this passage as "adverse

impact on civil servants' confidence"). Lu told the

delegation that Hong Kong would be entirely run by Hong

Kong people, that China did not plan to send people to

participate in Hong Kong's administrative system and that

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