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1. Mr Renton's queries on the attached submission.
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i s a reference to the Joint Declaration calling for an elected legislature in para 18 of the speaking note. We
this argument with the
response that the Joint
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have however to be care ful
Chinese, because it invites the
Declaration does not lay down how such a legislature should be elected, that under
under the Joint Declaration it is for the
Basic Law to lay this down, and that we should therefore not
anticipate the contents of the Basic Law by reforms in Hong
Kong.
2.
We used the word "convergence" at the JLG to express our perception of the need for any reforms we undertake in Hong
Kong before 1997 and the structure of government as laid
down
in the Basic Law to move in the same direction. As such it
has become a concept which we, EXCO and the Chinese can all
accept. It is quite an attractive term of art because there
is
a definite implication that we and the Chinese should
move towards each other, rather than that, as the Chinese
are more likely to see
we should just ourselves move in
the direction of the Chinese position.
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