Paris has announced this Monday to renounce ratify this agreement due to the imposition by China of a security act controversial in the former british colony.
This is a growing list. France is the latest country to renounce ratify the extradition agreement with hong Kong due to the imposition by China of a security act controversial in the former british colony, as announced on Monday, the French diplomacy.
“the light of the latest developments, France will not proceed in the state at the ratification of the extradition agreement signed on 4 may 2017 between France and the special administrative Region of hong Kong,” said the spokesman of the French ministry of foreign Affairs, Agnès von der Mühll. The agreement provides for the possibility to extradite any person sought by one of the two parties and that is located on the territory of the other. It is currently under review by the French Parliament, which should authorize in advance the ratification by the president, a scenario is now unlikely.
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The law imposed by Beijing in hong Kong relating to national security was decreed by China on 30 June, following a wave of demonstrations for freedom in hong Kong. It is intended to suppress subversion, secession, terrorism and the collusion with the foreign forces, in response to the protest movement aimed at the central power since last year in this territory semi-autonomous. It is the most radical for hong Kong since its handover by the Uk to China in 1997. The activists pro-democracy there fear an erosion of unprecedented freedom and autonomy.
France has also called to be held “as soon as possible” legislative elections in hong Kong, originally scheduled for September and postponed on Friday last a year because of sars coronavirus at the end of a month marked by the disqualification of candidates of the movement for democracy. “It is essential that the elections could be held as soon as possible and in conditions to allow a democratic expression of the sincere, consistent with the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the basic Law of hong Kong,” noted the spokesman of the quai d’orsay.
Germany
Germany has deplored the postponement of the election, seeing it as a “new violation of the rights of the citizens of hong Kong”. As soon as Friday, Berlin announced to suspend the extradition treaty that binds hong Kong, in response to the introduction by China of the controversial bill on security and the postponement of the parliamentary elections in this former british colony.
New Zealand
other countries have also announced the suspension of their extradition treaty with hong Kong. This is the case of the New Zealand on the 28th of July because of its “deep concern” about the new legislation in force in the former british colony. “The adoption by China of the new law on national security has eroded the principles of the rule of law” and “violated China’s commitments to the international community”, said the minister of foreign Affairs Winston Peters.
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This suspension, even though China is the largest trading partner of Wellington, is justified because “New Zealand can no longer have confidence in the independence of the judicial system of hong Kong in relation to China”, he added. China has announced this Monday to suspend the extradition agreement between hong Kong and New Zealand.
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Canada, Great Britain and Australia
the Three partners of the New Zealand alliance of intelligence services “Five Eyes” (Canada, Great Britain, Australia) also had suspended unilaterally in their extradition treaty with hong Kong., By retaliation, Beijing announced on July 28, the suspension of the extradition arrangements between hong Kong and these three western countries. “These mistaken actions (…) have seriously undermined the foundations of judicial cooperation”, had been Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the chinese ministry of foreign Affairs.
