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    Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong: The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China
    Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong: The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China
    Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong: The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China
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    Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong: The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China

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    The Sino-British Joint Declaration is a treaty between the governments of the United Kingdom and China signed in 1984 setting the conditions in which Hong Kong was to be transferred to Chinese control and for the governance of the territory after 1 July 1997. Hong Kong had been a colony of the British Empire since 1842 after the First Opium War and its territory was expanded on two occasions; first in 1860 with the addition of Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island, and again in 1898 when Britain obtained a 99-year lease for the New Territories. The date of the handover in 1997 marked the end of this lease.
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    Release dateSep 15, 2022
    ISBN8596547316855
    Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong: The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China

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      United Kingdom, P. R. China

      Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong

      The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China

      EAN 8596547316855

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

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      Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong

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      The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China have reviewed with satisfaction the friendly relations existing between the two Governments and peoples in recent years and agreed that a proper negotiated settlement of the question of Hong Kong, which is left over from the past, is conducive to the maintenance of the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and to the further strengthening and development of the relations between the two countries on a new basis. To this end, they have, after talks between the delegations of the two Governments, agreed to declare as follows:

      1. The Government of the People's Republic of China declares that to recover the Hong Kong area (including Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, hereinafter referred to as Hong Kong) is the common aspiration of the entire Chinese people, and that it has decided to resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong with effect from 1 July 1997.

      2. The Government of the United Kingdom declares that it will restore Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China with effect from 1 July 1997.

      3. The Government of the People's Republic of China declares that the basic policies of the People's Republic of China regarding Hong Kong are as follows:

      (1) Upholding national unity and territorial integrity and taking account of the history of Hong Kong and its realities, the People's Republic of China has decided to establish, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region upon resuming the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong.(2) The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will

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