DEC 31 '85 17:49 GIS HK.
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30.12.85
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Reporter:
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Your first question, is?
What measures you are going to be doing
to prepare yourselves, to set yourselves up, for the review in 19877
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Well, I suppose the present stage
that we are in is one of listening to the views which are being
expressed daily, weekly, in Hong Kong. That is the first thing to do,
to listen and to take very careful note of expressions of public
opinion over the next few months, and during this year. That is the
first thing.
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And dealing with the second part of
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And as I said, I think at the press conference last time,
many of the people concerned in the process of consultation over the 18 basic law will be people who will be expressing their opinions about 19 the development of our own system in Hong Kong. And I would expect
that we will hear one voice from those people, not two voices.
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So you're going to use the Basic Law
Consultative Committee as a vehicle to judge what people think
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No, no. No, I am not. I am merely
saying that there are, on the Basic Law Consultative Committee, many 27 people who will be also very vocal in expressing their ideas about
how the system within Hong Kong should develop.
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So do you think, Sir David, that
the political reform in Hong Kong should match the drafting of the basic law? And do you agree with Mr Ji Peng-fei's idea that in case of any big change politically in Hong Kong, negotiations should
be held between Britain and China?
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Well again, there are two questions
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