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TIME BECAUSE THE EXPRESSION WAS NOT SCIENTIFIC AND THE IDEA
NEEDED TO BE WRITTEN OUT CLEARLY IF LEGAL LANGUAGE. HE SAID THAT
CADRES CURRENTLY IN HK WOULD NOT (NOT) BECOME THE PEOPLE TO
RULE HK EVEN IF THEY HAD LIVED IN HK FOR MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS BY
1997. HE SAID THEY SHOULD OBTAIN BOTH A PERMANENT HK ID CARD AND
HAVE THE RIGHT OF RESIDENCE IN HK BEFORE THEY COULD PE REGARDED AS
HK PEOPLE. LU WAS ALSO REPORTED AS SAYING THAT THE PHRASE HAD NOT
(NOT) BEEN INITIATED BY THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP, WHICH SPARKED
CLAIMS AND COUNTER-CLAIMS AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE CONCEPT. SOME
PAPERS AND COMMENTATORS SAW IN LU'S WORDS AN ATTEMPT TO DISTANCE
THE CHINESE FROM THE PHRASE. THE EXPRESS SAID IN PROMINENT
FRONT-PAGE HEADLINES THAT PUBLIC CONFIDENCE WOULD BE SHAKEN IF
CHINA WENT BACK ON ITS PROMISE OF HK PEOPLE RULING HK''. THERE
WAS ALSO DISCUSSION ON THE MEANING OF THE AORD 'ACCOUNTABLE'',
FOLLOWING AN APPARENT DISAGREEMENT REPORTED BETWEEN LU AND CERTAIN
BLDC MEMBERS. LU DEFINED THE WORD AS ''HAVING AN OBLIGATION TO MAKE CLEAR, TO EXPALIN AND TO CONSULT''. HE REPORTEDLY ADDED THAT THE RELEVANT PART OF THE JOINT DECLARATION DID NOT NECESSARILY IMPLY
THAT THE LEGISLATURE WOULD BECOME THE CENTRE OF DECISION-MAKING
POWERS. AN FCO SPOKESMAN WAS REPORTED AS EXPLAINING TO MISS PAO THAT
THE WORD MEANT ''ANSWEPABLE'*. DOROTHY LIU AGPEED THAT THE WORD
WAS NOT DEFINED IN LITERATURE ON THE PRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM, AND THAT IT SHOULD THEREFOPE BE DEFINED BY THE CHINESE PARTICULAPLY
AS IT WAS FOUND IN ANNEX 1.
5. POLITICAL REFORMS: MING PAO RAN A SERIES ON THE SUBJECT. THE
PAPER SAID THAT ONLY ONCE HAD BRITAIF DISALLOWED LEGISLATION
PASSED BY LEGCO, SO LEGCO HAD REAL LEGISLATIVE POWER. THE PAPER
ARGUED THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ONE COUNTRY, TWO
SYSTEMS'' CONCEPT WOULD BE AFFECTED IF CHINA TRIED TO TUPN LEGCO
INTO A PURLEY ADVISORY BODY. THE PAPER ALSO REFERRED TO A REPORT
WHICH HAD APPEARED IN FINANCIAL DAILY SUGGESTING THAT CHINA HAD
ASKED THE HKG TO CONDUCT AN EMPTY REVIEW |
1 IN 1987 PROPOSING NO
CHANGES TO TO THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE. MING PAO SAID THAT A SOURCE
WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHINA AND HK HAD PEJECTED
THE REQUEST, AND TWO OTHER SOURCES DENIED THAT CHINA HAD OBTAINED
A VETO OVER POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN HK. ECONOMIC JOURNAL CUCTED
A SOURCE AS SAYING THAT THE 1987 REVIEW WOULD NOT PROPOSE ANY
CHANGE TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEGCO AND EXCC OR TO THE POSITION
OF THE GOVERNOR, BUT WOULD BE CONFINED TO THE COMPOSITION OF LEGCO AND THE QUESTION OF DIRECT ELECTIONS. THIS WAS INTENDED TO
STEER THE REVIEW AWAY FROM THE KEY PARTS OF THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE
AND SO AVOID A CONFLICT WITH PEKING, THE PAPER SAID. THE GOVERNOR IN SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS STRESSED THAT NOTHING HAD BEEN DECIDED YET AND THAT THE NUB OF THE REVIEW WAS TO LISTEN TO THE VIEWS OF
HK PEOPLE.
6. LAND: THE LEADERS OF POTH SIDES OF THE LAND COMMISSION WEPE INTERVIEWED BY THE OVERSEAS EDITION OF THE PEOPLE'S DAILY. гoon
SAID THAT THE GOAL OF ALLOWING HK'S LAND ADMINISTRATION TO BE
CONDUCTED EFFICIENTLY HAD BEEN ACHIEVED BECAUSE OF THE SMOOTH
PROGRESS MADE IN THE LC. SUN CONFIRMED CHINA'S POSITION OF NOT BEING
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