British Foreign Minister Cameron Wednesday (February 28) refers to Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law. The legislative proposal has not fulfilled the obligations of Hong Kong under the joint statement of Sino -British.Chinese officials stressed that the United Kingdom had no sovereignty, no governance, or supervision power to Hong Kong after the return.
According to Reuters, Cameron believes that the move will have a negative impact on the Hong Kong people in exercising their rights and freedom, and says: "I strongly urge the Hong Kong SAR government to re -consider their re -considered them.Suggestion.An excuse for sound.
The Wall Street Journal of the United States said on the 27th that the boundary between Hong Kong and mainland China is disappearing, and Article 23 of the Basic Law is the latest example of this point.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong responded that after the return of the Hong Kong, the legal basis for the Chinese government to control the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was the Chinese Constitution and the Basic Law on Hong Kong, not the joint statement of China and Britain.
A spokesperson for the Hong Kong Office of the Hong Kong State Administration said: "Individual politicians and the media in the United Kingdom and other countries adhere to the prejudice against China, and believe that the country involves the wide range of legal coverage in national security, the strict and righteousness of regulations, but obsessed with obsessionIn the use of the "gray filter" to interpret Article 23 of the Basic Law, it will deliberately confront the national security and rights to slander the injuries in the name of submitting opinions.The British Embassy emphasized that Sino -British joint statements did not give Britain's qualifications and rights to interfere with Hong Kong affairs.
According to the report, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government said that Perosi and the Wall Street Journal Agency evaluated 23 legislation targets that the external forces of national security did exist and "their threats to the continued national security."
The Hong Kong Government launched the public consultation of Article 23 of the Basic Law at the end of January and ended on February 28.