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HRES 667 Expressing support for freedom in Hong Kong.
Posted by on September 9, 2004 | comments
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H.RES.667 345-0 Burgess Voted Yea<.B> Title:Expressing support for freedom in Hong Kong. Sponsor: Rep Cox, Christopher [CA-48] (introduced 6/9/2004) Cosponsors: 45 Committees: House International Relations Related Bills: S.J.RES.33 Latest Major Action: 9/13/2004 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 345 - 0, 1 Present (Roll no. 442). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY AS OF: 6/9/2004--Introduced. States that House of Representatives: (1) declares that the people of Hong Kong should be free to determine the pace and scope of constitutional developments; and (2) calls upon the President to call upon the People's Republic of China to guarantee that all revisions of Hong Kong law are made according to the wishes of the people of Hong Kong as expressed through a fully democratically elected legislature and chief executive, declare that the continued lack of a fully democratically elected legislature in Hong Kong constitutes a violation of the Agreement between 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 (the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984), and call upon the People's Republic of China to honor its obligations under such Declaration.
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