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DEC 31 '85 17:51 GIS HK
P.11
Date:
30.12.85
Time:
9.35
10.45 a.m.
Reporter:
RG/11
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LEGCO should be constituted by elections.
The Joint Declaration said that
Now, how do you interpret
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that?
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Precisely what it says.
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What kind of elections?
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Banie Loui
This I don't think, at this stage,
we can pre-empt the beginning of 1986, what will be in the Review in 1987.
1987 Review.
I can't say myself, at the
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Well, do you foresee a situation
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your action will interpret it in one way, and the basic law people 16 will interpret that sentence in another way. Can you see that
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happening?
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No, I can't see that happening.
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quite frankly.
I think you are jumping the gun/
But surely, it has already happened.
No, it hasn't.
Q.
There have been some real surprises
over how certain people have interpreted the basic law, quite differently from what generally it has been believed to say. not the basic law, the Joint Declaration.
Sorry,
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you thinking of?
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which particular interpretation are
Well, there have been several state-
ments made recently which seem to interpret the Joint Declaration in different ways from what Hong Kong people had generally thought it
meant.
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