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- 8 AUC 1986
Dr Wilson
MR MARTIN LEE
CONFIDENTIAL
A5B878
FROM: CO HUM, HKD
DATE: 29 July 1986
1.
Thank
for
your you
conversation with Mr Lee.
minute of 28 July,
about
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.
and
his
in
Drafting
3. Mr Lee made two points which he does not seem to have raised with you. The first was a plea for better backing
information from the Hong
Government Kong
for meetings of the Basic Law preparation 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
Government Kong
very result he felt
vulnerable in the BLDC, confronted as he was by some of the
best legal brains and most operators in China. In comparison the Hong Kong side was in disarray: it did not prepare a common position before meetings, and Hong Kong members often adopted opposing
official.
As
a
experienced
bureaucratic
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