Organised by the Alliance for Common People Building Up Macau (API), in conjunction with the Association for the Promotion of Public Legal Services, a fourth-session seminar on the Macau Basic Law and the local National Security Law was held yesterday, with the aim of giving a further boost to the development of Macau’s rule of law, as well as strengthening the public’s understanding of, and support for, the city’s National Security Law.
The association’s chief supervisor Ivan Fong In Long, assistant researcher at the Centre for Constitutional and Basic Law Studies of the Faculty of Law at the University of Macau (UM), pointed out in a speech the importance of the National Security Law in an era of globalisation and rapid technological development, saying that the ongoing seminar aims to explore in-depth the further improvement of the rule of law protection for Macau under the “One Country, Two Systems” framework, so as to address the current needs of national security and, at the same time take the relevant cooperation between Guangdong and Macau to a new level.
Lawyer Chan Pei Kei and Fan Xueke, assistant professor of the Faculty of Law at the private City University of Macau, attended yesterday’s seminar at Nam Tung Commercial Building as keynote speakers. Both briefed the attendees on their views, respectively, themed “Analysing the Procedural Provisions in the New National Security Law of Macau” and “Strengthening National Security Education at Macau Tertiary Education Institutions to Enhance Young People’s Correct and Rational Understanding”.
Chan said that that Macau’s National Security Law places equal emphasis on both substantive and procedural laws, striking the right balance between the protection of national security and the protection of individuals’ rights, which was in line with the actual needs of the country as a whole and local society.
Fan said that Macau should give full play to the role of national security education in shaping young people’s correct values and sense of national identity at local tertiary education institutions, urging the institutions to establish a regular mechanism for national security education, and closely integrate national security education with tertiary education for the cultivation of talents, so as to lay a solid foundation for the cultivation of new talents who have gained an international outlook, who love the motherland and love Macau, and who will take up the great responsibility of national rejuvenation.
The seminar’s closing session will be held on November 17.
Association for the Promotion of Public Legal Services Chief Supervisor Ivan Fong In Long delivers a speech during yesterday’s fourth-session seminar at Nam Tung Commercial Building. – Photo: Yuki Lei
