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Carrie Lam gives support to electoral changes in Hong Kong
The Chinese and Hong Kong flags flutter at the office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Beijing, China, May 25, 2020. (File photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang)
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HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam gave her clear support on Tuesday (Feb 23) to electoral reforms in the city, a day after a top Beijing official signalled major changes would be coming to ensure it is run by patriots .
Lam said political strife and unrest in the city, including anti-government protests in 2019 as well as protests in 2014, showed there were always some people who are rather hostile to the central authorities in China.
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On 27 November 2020, the Department of Justice of Hong Kong and the Supreme People’s Court of China signed the Supplemental Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the
Supplemental Arrangement).
The Supplemental Agreement amends and clarifies the Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and the HKSAR (the
Existing Arrangement) which was signed back in 1999.
The main amendments / clarifications under the Supplemental Arrangement are as follows:
Article 1 clarifies that the procedures under the Existing Arrangement cover the “recognition”, in addition to the “enforcement”, of arbitral awards made in Hong Kong or the Mainland. The Existing Arrangement did not refer expressly to the “recognition” of arbitral awards, leading to ambiguity as to whether an arbitral award needs to