Zhao’s ‘to the letter’ pledge
NZPA-AP Peking China’s Premier, Mr Zhao Ziyang, had told an official Hong Kong delegation that the accord guaranteeing the colony’s capitalist system when Peking recovers sovereignty in 1997 would be followed “to the letter,” the Government said yesterday.
The official news agency, Xihhua, said that Mr Zhao had made the remarks in a meeting on Tuesday with Hong Kong public figures including the British administration’s Chief Secretary, Sir Philip Haddon-Cave. They had been invited to China’s National Day celebration. China and Britain initialled an agreement on September 26 that will return Hong Kong to Chinese control on July 1, 1997, when Britain’s 99-year lease on most of the Territory will expire.
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