27 November 1984
Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe MP Foreign Secretary
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Dear Sir Geoffrey
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I am writing to you about the important question of direct elections to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. I have been approached by the Joint Conference on Green Paper on Representative Government in Hong Kong and by my own constituents who are concerned about this.
The British-Chinese Joint Agreement states that after 1997 Hong Kong is to be administered by an elected Legislative Council which will have the authority to make laws governing Hong Kong's internal affairs. These elections will therefore take place in 12 years time. But the proposals being put forward by the Hong Kong Government in the Green Paper on the Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong introduce only a very limited measure of indirect elected representation, without any assurances that at some time members of the Legislative Council will be directly elected. It seems to me that the process towards direct elections to the Legislative Council should begin immiediately in order to make it possible to prepare adequately for the direct election of at least 20 per cent of the members of the Legislative Council by 1988.
These proposals seem to me right in primiple, reasonable and modest in practice. Can I have your assurance that the strategy as set out in the Green Paper will be amended and that a significant proportion of members of the Legislative Councill will be directly elected by 1988 at the latest?
Yours sincerely
Rea Fresson
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