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OD (K)
.In Confidence
SUBJECT:
FUTURE OF HONG KONG : CONSTITUTIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL
DEVELOPMENT
1.
At the OD (K) meeting on 13 December it was decided
that a paper should be prepared examining the scope for
increasing self-government in Hong Kong up to 1997. I
now attach a paper that the Governor of Hong Kong
discussed with the Executive Council on
5 January.
You
may wish to discuss this at the meeting of the
Sub-Committee
on 11 January.
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2.. In presenting the paper, the Governor emphasised
that it had been designed to provide a basis for
members' discussions with Ministers and should not be
taken to represent any commitment on HMG! s part to any
particular course of action.. Members of the Council
unanimously considered that progressive development,
building on existing institutions, was the right course.
No-one favoured moving directly to the introduction of
a fully elective system, and some thought that this might
be interpreted in Hong Kong as an indication that the
British were pulling out.
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There was a generally
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