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REPEATED INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
10 FUTURE OF HONG KONG: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GENERAL
STRATEGY FOR THE TALKS
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I am grateful for the advice which you and the Governor
13 have given on how we should handle the question of constitutional
development in Hong Kong up to 1997, in particular the position
of the Governor. I a m also grateful to the Governor for the
amendment which he has made to the draft Green Paper on
Constitutional Development. I agree that this now leaves the
question of the position of the Governor sufficiently open,
provided
that in paragraph 63 the paper were amended to speak
20 of elective process for the Governorship as "being one possible
21 development" rather than "the natural development".
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22 circulating the Paper to Ministerial colleagues with this
suggestion and with the recommendation that it be approved for
24 further discussion with EXCO and for presentation to LEGCO as
25 soon as the Governor judges practicable. (I note that he has in
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