Hong Kong daily reports North Korea, Iraq on agenda for Blair visit.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

to talk trade and security in Beijing", published by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post web site on 18 July

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Sunday [20 July] for a four-day visit for wide-ranging discussions on bilateral, regional and global issues. But the political crisis in Hong Kong, where the financial secretary and secretary for security have resigned, is likely to be kept off the open agenda.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Hong Kong was part of China's internal affairs and the mainland had been strictly observing the "one country, two …