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"I should like to start by congratulating the rapporteur, Mr Cushnahan, on his excellent work on such an important matter. I am delighted to see that Commissioner Patten, for whose attitude and efficiency as governor of Hong Kong I have a great deal of respect, is here with us today. I should like to dwell for a moment on two points which I believe are important, as of course are so many others. The first is purely legal. We must, I think, all agree that if, with measures such as those quoted in the Cushnahan report, we touch on the principle of the rule of law which should inform the legal and constitutional framework of Hong Kong, then we question the wider principle of "one country, two systems" on which developments in Hong Kong have been based. And the second point which I wish to raise concerns the risks threatening the freedom of the press. It is of paramount importance to the proper development of the principle of "one country, two systems", which constituted a revolution, as it were, in international relations because it introduced a new doctrine, to have, to protect and to respect freedom of the press. Why? Because it is through freedom of the press that observations and proposals are made which aim to keep things within the democratic framework on which we are all agreed."@en1
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