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issue pse
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Adveten dusole
Mindisver
Dr Wilson
PS/Mr Renton Rengon
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18 December 1986
REGISTRY
29 DEC 1986
Cc:
Mr Gillmore
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Mr Fifoot, Deputy
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INDEX
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Action Teken
Legal Adviser
-7.
HONG KONG: 1987 REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
Problem
1.
The proposal of the Hong Kong Government
office to assess Hong Kong opinion on the 1987 review.
C
3.
to set up a survey
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that we concur generally with what is proposed.
I submit a draft telegram.
Background and Argument
In my submission of 18 November I summarised the current
state of the Hong Kong Government's thinking on how public views might be assessed in the 1987 Review.
Following informal consultation with ExCo Hong Kong have now formulated more detailed
proposals, which are
entail:
consistent with their earlier ideas.
They
(a)
the
(b)
establishment
of a survey office, headed and staffed by
Hong Kong civil servants but visibly separate from the HKG machinery and reporting direct to the Governor-in-Council.
the appointment of two monitors, who would have full access
to the survey office's work and who would be members of high standing in the Hong Kong community:
(c)
terms
of
reference for the office
and the monitors
which
carefully limit
limit their functions SO as to exclude the making of any judgement on the issues under review.
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