GRS 500
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FM HONG KONG
TO DESK BY 2009OOZ FCO
TELNO 2589
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OF 20074OZ NOVEMBER 85
INFO IMMEDIATE BEKING
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YOUR TELSNOS 1806 TO 1808, PEKING TELNO 1690.
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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: RESTRICTED: ANNUAL REPORT TO PARLIAMENT.
WE HAVE INCORPORATED YOUR REVISIONS AND PEKING'S COMMENTS IN A REVISED TEXT WITH THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL MINOR CHANGES:
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(A) IN YOUR REVISED PARAGRAPH 4, THE FIFTH SENTENCE SHOULD, WE
BELIEVE, READ:
''PARLIAMENT DEBATED THE AGREEMENT IN (NEXT WORD UNDERLINED) THE LIGHT OF ETC.**
(B) IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR REVISED PARAGRAPH 22, THE WORD
**BOTH** SHOULD, WE SUGGEST, BE DELETED.
(C) ALSO IN YOUR REVISED PARAGRAPH 22, TO BE STRICTLY ACCURATE,
WE SUGGEST THAT THE FIFTH SENTENCE SHOULD START: TOTAL
MEMBERSHIP OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, EXCLUDING THE PRESIDENT (THE GOVERNOR), WAS INCREASED ETC.''
(D) WE BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR REVISED PARAGRAPH
24 WOULD BETTER READ: 'THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS THE
APEX OF THE THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.''
(E) PART OF THE THIRD SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH 24 APPEARS TO HAVE
BEEN OMITTED IN ERROR. WE BELIEVE THIS SENTENCE SHOULD READ:
''URBAN COUNCILLORS SIT ON THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS:
REGIONAL DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS WILL SIT IN THE REGIONAL
COUNCIL SEMICOLON MEMBERS OF DISTRICT BOARDS AND OF THE TWO
SECOND-LEVEL COUNCILS SIT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TOGETHER
WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL THE MAJOR FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATIONS
AND SECTORS OF HONG KONG'S SOCIETY.'
Ken
2. WE SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS:
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