Liaison office chief: Arrangements must follow principle of Basic Law

National sovereignty and the lawful rights of the central government must be safeguarded when implementing universal suffrage in Hong Kong, the central government's top representative in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said at a luncheon with legislators on Tuesday.

Zhang Xiaoming, director of the Liaison Office of the Central Government in the HKSAR, reiterated that people in Hong Kong should not doubt the central government's sincerity in implementing universal suffrage in Hong Kong, and the whole process must follow the course set in 2007 by the Basic Law and the National People's Congress Standing Committee.