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DATE: 29 July 1986
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1 8 AUG 1986
Thank
you for
your
1.
conversation with Mr Lee.
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your
2.
As you know, Mr Lee called on me yesterday afternoon. Most of our conversation went over the ground in paragraphs 1-3 of your minute. He enlarged on his ideas about the
composition of LegCo in 1988: he felt membership should be made up of four equal groups, composed respectively of
representing
those
directly
elected,
functional
constituencies, elected by electoral colleges and directly appointed. He developed at some length his thesis that the Basic Law should allow for flexibility and evolution in the composition of the legislature after 1997: like you I found
this an interesting and attractive thesis.
3. Mr Lee made two points which he does not seem to have raised with you. The first was a plea for better backing
and information from the Hong Kong Government in his
preparation for meetings of the Basic Law Drafting Committee. He said it was quite clear that Miss Maria Tam
was being fed with information by the Hong Kong Government.
Mr Szeto Wah and himself, because they were regarded as less reliable, were only occasionally tipped off by a Hong
Kong Government official. As a result he felt very
vulnerable in the BLDC, confronted as he was by some of the
best legal brains and most experienced bureaucratic operators in China. In comparison the Hong Kong side was
in disarray: it
it did not prepare a common position before meetings, and Hong Kong
members
often adopted opposing
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