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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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10 November 1993 香港立法局 ————一九九三年十一月十日

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However, Hong Kong is the ninth largest trading nation in the world. After 1997, we will be independent of Britain and able to bargain with them from a position of strength. With this in mind, we should be negotiating now. We should no longer be pleading or begging or grovelling to Britain. We should take up a posture of hard bargaining, with forthrightness, openness and courage. "Give us the guarantees we want, or else .....". I suggest that is the only way to get undertakings from blinkered politicians with no concept of reality.

It should be clear from these remarks, Madam deputy, that I whole- heartedly support the motion in principle. As for implementation, however, I recommend we consider if this should be done more broadly and fundamentally rather than confine ourselves to the specific freedom of movement. Furthermore, we are coming of age. We must now tell Britain what guarantees we expect for our people and insist on their being provided or else!

楊孝華議員致辭:

代理主席女士,引發今次辯論「入境權利」的主要原因,很明顯是由於中國公民韓東方被 拒回國而要滯留本港的事件。這件事涉及中國的内政,亦牽涉内地的法律條文,我覺得我 們難以作出全面評價。但作為旅遊界功能組別的代表,我是感受到旅遊界同業對此事的關 注及焦慮。這件事亦間接令人聯想到港人今後外遊回港的入境權利。這些疑慮,都反映在 動議辯論措辭内,殷切要求中英兩國保證港人的入境權。

港人每年外遊人數高達200萬人次以上,若果加上前往中國的旅客數字,更加高達 3000萬人次。不過港人被拒諸門外不准返港的事,似乎從未發生過。剛才有議員列舉 了若干名中國公民和香港居民被中國拒絕入境的事例。總數約有六名。與3000多萬人 次相比,少於500萬份之一。其實拒絕入境和不給與居留權等事件,並不限於中國。最 近有報道,有一位紅星,不知甚麼原因,差點被加拿大拒絕入境,而其居留權據聞也被取 消。

我認為我們不用對這類事件過分擔憂,但我們要認識到,香港人是特別敏感的一群,就 算是有500萬份之一機會發生的事件,港人也感到焦慮不安。為了保障港人的信心及民 心安穩,我們要爭取保持現有的出入境自由。「民主誠可貴,自由更實際」,我相信-

分 的自由包括出入境自由,這是港人信心的強心針。

自由黨最近在北京之行中,亦曾向公安部表達對韓東方事件的關注,並向他們反映了港 人在這方面的憂慮。從我在夏天休會期間走訪很多旅行社同業時所得來的回應,得知旅遊 界普遍認為應該讓韓東方回國後依法處理。這樣做不但無損中國的國體,同時亦避免事件

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