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The Governor said that in the
members of the CPPCC.
light of the Council's
there would be no
incumbents accepting such an invitation.
endorsement of the memorandum
objection, on HKG's part, to
In reply to Mr
the Governor said it would not however
be appropriate at the present time for any member of the
Executive Council to be a CPPCC member. That body anyway
did not have the necessary standing for Executive
Council Members to be associated with
But it was
Executive
unlikely, with regard to both the
it.
and
Legislative Councils, that the Chinese would want people
appointed by the Governor of Hong Kong to join the CPPCC.
2.
D.
Akers-Jones
With reference to the proposal at paragraph
8(b) to make the decision public, Mr
pointed out that Mr WU Shing-shuen, a member of the
Guangdong Provincial CPPCC, had put in his nomination
papers for election to the Kowloon City District Board.
Questions on this were already being received from the
media. Mr J.C.A. Hammond added that the issue was also
to be raised by Unofficial Dr HO Kam-fai in the debate
on the White Paper on Representative
Members agreed that in his speech replying to the
debate, the Attorney General would simply say that
member of the CPPCC had recently submitted a candidature
for the forthcoming District Board elections, his
nomination had been accepted and the Government saw
bar to that candidature.
Government.
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