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“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1033) condemning acts by the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region that violate fundamental rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents as well as acts that undermine Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 1033 Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') is legally bound to guarantee the civil liberties of the people of Hong Kong through 2047 and the ``Joint Declaration of the Government 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'' (hereafter the ``Joint Declaration''), in which the People's Republic of China committed that for 50 years, the basic policies would remain unchanged, including keeping the ``social and economic systems in Hong Kong'' unchanged; Whereas Article 39 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong mandates that: ``The provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and international labour conventions as applied to Hong Kong shall remain in force and shall be implemented through the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.''; Whereas the Joint Declaration states that ``Rights and freedoms, including those of the per…”