Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
BASIC LAW (79)
Newspaper Comments/Editorials NonCommunist
Communist
21.4.86 (cont'd)
22.4.86
(report) BLDC member Xiao Weiyong: The Green Paper on the 1987 review of the representative system could be used as
reference material for the sub-group on the SAR political system.
are at stake, nothing is impossible. Disagreement will not be cause for alarm. Rather, it is a positive sign that issues affecting the future
Basic Law can be hammered out openly.
Statements/Comments,
by others
(report) At the BLDC meeting, members reached
a consensus to include in the draft structure of the Basic Law a section on the
relationship between the Chinese Constitution and the Basic Law.
Another decision reached after the group
discussions is that the question of residual powers, along with other issues on which a consensus has not yet been reached, will be written into a
memorandum annexed to
the draft structure. The
memorandum will be
discussed by the five special sub-groups in
future.
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