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HK enters its penultimate day of British rule
HONG KONG, June 29 : Hong Kong entered its penultimate day of British rule Sunday with a fond farewell radio address from its last Governor, Chris Patten, who decried as "nonsense" arguments that the territory cares only for money, not democracy, reports AP.
With the historic handover to China less than 48 hours away. Patten predicted that Hong Kong would remain economically mighty as long as it sticks to the policies and institutions Britain is leaving behind.
Hong Kong is "A great Chinese success story, written — to be fair — within a system of values and British Institutions which have encouraged not threatened that success." Patten said in his broadcast, the last in a series he has given during his five years as the 28th and last of Hong Kong's British governors.
Meanwhile, another British
official reminded China of its commitment that the 4,000 troops it will send to Hong Kong six hours after the change of flags midnight Monday should not be used for enforcing internal security.
Robin Cook, the British Foreign Secretary, said China's right to send troops as a demonstration of sovereignty was not in doubt but they "should not be seen on the streets of Hong Kong."
But few Hong Kong residents seemed concerned at many of the parties that were being thrown across the colony.
On Hong Kong's Kowloon side, more than 3.000 young expatriates and native Hong Kongers donned their handover best to party all night and well into Sunday morning at a ’ Unity" rave — a dance to celebrate the return to Chinese rule.
Stylised Mao-style dresses and People's Liberation Army
caps were the fashion, and the red Chinese flag, with its five yellow stars, appeared on the rear if more than one pair of ravers' pants. Royal Hong Kong police kept a close eye. making sure beer lines didn't get out of hand and that participants didn't hail taxi cabs outside of designated areas.
During his radio address. Patten said it was untrue and unfair to argue that Hong Kong's 6.3 million people "Don't care about democracy and civil liberties, but only about making money."
That was clear, he said, on June 4, when 55.000 people attended a rally in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of China's crackdown on dissent in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
On a more personal note. Patten said he would miss "Pottering around" Hong Kong's crowded streets and markets.
"Enjoying the smells and the sights and the energy" after he leaves Chinese-ruled Hong Kong aboard the royal yacht Britannia in the early hours of Tuesday i loming.
"I ave to say that I have enjoyed being governor. Hong Kong at its best it great fun — boisterous, noisy, lively, exciting." he said. "I love Hong Kong, and 1 always will."
Patten wasn't the only person reflecting on the imminent end of 156 years of British rule.
In his radio interview, Cook said China's decision to install an unelected legislature on July 1 to replace the current elected one violated the treaty China and Britain signed in 1984 setting down the terms of the handover. China promised in the treaty that Hong Kong's legislature would be elected, Cook said.
"It is plainly a breach of that commitment to have a legislative council which is appointed
not elected," he said.
China says the current legislature must be disbanded because it was elected under rules Beijing did not sanction.
Cook said he would tell Chinese leaders in meetings in coming days that "We expect them to keep to the promise that they have made to restore free and fair elections within 12 months."
While British rule will end Monday, its interests in Hong Kong will not. Cook said. He noted that Britain's investments in Hong Kong are 10 times its investments in China.
In a glittering steel-and-glass waterfront venue, preparations for handover ceremonies on Monday night and early Tuesday morning continued apace.
Officials of the incoming government, including Elsie Leung. Hong Kong's future Jus
tice minister, gathered there early Sunday to rehearse the big day's events.
Outside, workers moved giant security barriers into place in the early morning sun.
In Shenzhen, the Chinese border town that has boomed with Hong Kong money, security was tightened ahead of the arrival of leaders from Beijing who will pass through the city en route to handover ceremonies in Hong Kong, newspapers said.
Hong Kong's roads were eerily quiet as the usually frenetic colony kicked back and enjoyed a five-day handover holiday that started Saturday.
Many taxis flew pennants on their radio antennas emblazoned with the emblem of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as Hong Kong will be known under Chinese rule.