BASIC LAW (245)
Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Statements
mments
Communist
by others
23.10.85
24.10.85
25.10.85
The HK Daily News: It is unlikely that leftists had manipulated the situation to exclude right-wingers from BLCC nominations.
Tin Tin Daily News: It is unlikely that China will exert pressure to exclude CIC executive director Lau Chi-shek from being nominated to the BLCC as China has expressed welcome for right-wingers
with left-wing unions but also because of pressure from Peking.
Mr S.Y. Wong of the Kowloon City Basic Law Consultative Office:
There should be more
grassroots representative
on the BLCC.
Christian Industrial
Committee executive
director Lau Chin-shek: He is convinced that
pressure from Peking is not the reason for the joint conference of labour organisations not to nominate him to the BLCC. He has not been chosen because the left-wing unions cannot accommodate dissident opinions.
Legco member Andrew Wong: Although the Basic Law must be in line with HK's political reforms, the Basic Law should set out the broad outlines while the details should be decided by the HK