Hong Kong (Hansard, 13 July 1994)

§ 33. Mr. Turner
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of recent discussions on the future of Hong Kong.

§ Mr. Faulds
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the proegress of recent discussions on the future of Hong Kong.

§ Mr. Goodlad
The 29th plenary session of the Sino-British joint liaison group was held in Hong Kong in June. Full agreement was reached, after seven years of negotiations, on the future of the military estate in Hong Kong. Agreement was also reached, among other things, on the continued application to Hong Kong of nine multilateral treaties on merchant shipping, the text of two new bilateral treaties on extradition and investment and the localisation of three more items of United Kingdom legislation.