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review, but suggested that press reports of demands for a wide
variety of constitutional changes we re causing anxieties amongst some Chinese
some Chinese leaders, and suggested that we should slow things down. Ji did not make any commitments but he adopted a moderate attitude, and hopefully this meeting will represent
the first steps in an informal dialogue.
I attach the
Governor's telegrams reporting the meeting.
Constitutional Development
4.
I have arranged a meeting with the Secretary of State on 20 December at 1130 for a general discussion on constitutional development
light of the Joint Liaison Group meeting in
Peking.
in
Basic Law Consultative Committee
5.
The members of the Executive of the Basic Law
Consultative Committee and its office holders have been
selected. The Executive wa s elected in accordance with the
constitution of the BLCC, but the office holders we re named
from on high rather than elected. Following considerable
controversy about the constitutionality of this
Executive wa s reconvened and the same office holders formally elected. A typical Chinese muddle.
Nationality
6.
step, the
The Parliamentary debate on the Hong Kong nationality
Order in Council has been put off until early January. The
order wa s debated by Lego on 4 December, and Unofficial members made a number of proposals with which we will have
deal in the Parliamentary debate.
to
16 December 1985
рейный
A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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