Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
Constitutional Reforms (30)
Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials
Officials
Statements/Comments
by others
30.11.85
1.12.85
(Chief Secretary Sir David Akers-Jones): The development of
representative government in HK was a matter of interest to both sides. An exchange of information on the subject during the JLG talks was useful.
(Oriental Daily reported) (Source from the British side of the JLG): The pace of local political reforms will not slow
down.
(Deputy Chief Secretary Alan Scott): The government would consider the link between the future Basic Law and HK's political development when it reviewed the political system in 1987.
Non-communist Papers
(Financial Daily): A high degree of autonomy stipulated in the Joint Declaration could not be secured within a few years if HK remained under a colonial system. The participation of Legco members and Government officials in the BLCC would have a positive effect on the compatibility of political reforms and the Basic Law.
(HK Daily News): As the political reforms were planned in line with the Joint Declaration, the development of the representative system would surely take account of its compatibility with. the Basic Law.
(Ming Pao): The aims outlined in the Green Paper and White Paper on representative government had gone beyond the realms of HK's "administration" which
(Martin Lee, Legco Unofficial): Ji Pengfei's remarks in the Outlook magazine would mean that HK Government should be accountable to China, reducing it to a lame duck administration.