IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 667 
Expressing support for freedom in Hong Kong. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 9, 2004 
Mr. COX (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, Mr. SES-
SIONS, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, and 
Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida) submitted the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for freedom in Hong Kong. 
Whereas according to the April 1, 2004, report by the De-
partment of State entitled U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act 
Report, ‘‘The United States has strong interests in the 
protection of human rights and the promotion of demo-
cratic institutions throughout the world. The Hong Kong 
people share many values and interests with Americans 
and have worked to make Hong Kong a model of what 
can be achieved in a society based on the rule of law and 
respect for civil liberties’’; 
Whereas according to section 103(3) of the United States- 
Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5713(3)), 
‘‘The United States should continue to treat Hong Kong 
as a territory which is fully autonomous from the United
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Kingdom and, after June 30, 1997, should treat Hong 
Kong as a territory which is fully autonomous from the 
People’s Republic of China with respect to economic and 
trade matters.’’; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China has frustrated the 
gradual and orderly process toward universal suffrage 
and the democratic election of the legislature and chief 
executive in Hong Kong as envisioned by the Basic Law 
of the Hong Kong SAR; and 
Whereas on April 6, 2004, the Standing Committee of the 
National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of 
China declared itself, as opposed to the people of Hong 
Kong, the final arbiter of democratic reform and, on 
April 26, 2004, declared that universal suffrage would 
not apply to the election of the third Chief Executive in 
2007 or to the election of all members of the fourth Leg-
islative Council in 2008: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the 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 of the United 
States to— 
(A) call upon the People’s Republic of 
China, the National People’s Congress, and any 
groups appointed by the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China to guarantee that all 
revisions of Hong Kong law reflect the wishes 
of the people of Hong Kong as expressed
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through a fully democratically elected legisla-
ture and chief executive; 
(B) declare that the continued lack of a 
fully democratically elected legislature in Hong 
Kong is contrary to the vision of democracy set 
forth in the Agreement between the Govern-
ment 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, done at Beijing on December 
19, 1984 (the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 
1984); and 
(C) call upon the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to honor its treaty obli-
gations under the Sino-British Joint Declara-
tion of 1984. 
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