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interference until 1997.
severe.
The blow to confidence would then be
Hong Kong Government's views
10.
Hong Kong are committed to a a review in 1987. They have
on what options should then be
The sort of changes they are
way fall broadly into the
as yet formulated no firm views presented to Hong Kong opinion.
considering in a preliminary following categories:
(a)
The Governor: Measures
increase delegation to Chief
Secretary so as to prepare for latter assuming functions
of eventual Chief Executive.
(b)
Executive Council:
Confine membership progressively to
members of LegCo.
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Legislative Council:
on
Encourage
formation of Committees
policy areas, and emergence of subject leaders through them. Increase indirectly elected component and introduce a small directly elected component.
11.
The Hong Kong Government wi sh to achieve further constitutional progress before the publication of the Basic Law
shackles them, but they accept that it would be not only
useless, but positively damaging in Hong Kong if China was to
denounce any reforms. Thus they are now anxious to
an informal dialogue with the Chinese with the aim of:
establish
(a)
preventing further misunderstandings;
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