PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs, if Her Majesty's Government or the Hong Kong Government propose to introduce direct elections to the Legislative or Executive Council at any time before sovereignty for the whole territory is transferred in 1997.
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ANSWER:
thi Enggan будет
by the Hongkong hout in their white paper on the further Developement
of Representative Gort in Hong Kong
It was announced in 1984 that there would be a review in 1987 of the future development of representative government in Hong Kong, and that this would include the question of the introduction of direct elections. I cannot anticipate the outcome of that review.
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