Albright to Skip 1 Hong Kong Rite
<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON —
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would boycott if invited to the installation July 1 of the new Hong Kong legislature, officials said Monday.
To attend “would not be appropriate,” the State Department’s Nicholas Burns said, because Hong Kong already “had a perfectly good legislature in place.”
China plans to replace the legislature elected under British rule.
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