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debate on the Green Paper in July in which all members Cap
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present in Hong Kong, apart from officials, spoke. number of different points of view were put forward and were carefully and vigorously argued.
152.
The Survey Office will produce its report at
the end of this month.
During the four month
consultation period it received a total of
total of over 130,000
submissions. This is far more than in any previous
public consultation exercise. It is evidence of the
interest which the issues in the Green
Green Paper, and in particular the possibility of introducing some element of direct elections
elections to this Council,
to this Council, have aroused
have aroused amongst
in our community. Besides being the passive
recipient of
has Survey Office
also
commissioned its own public opinion poll in order to obtain an objective assessment of the views of the whole community on the options listed in the Green Paper. I will not attempt now to pre-judge the contents of the
Survey
It will be laid before this
many
Office
submissions,
report.
the
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Council early next month and members will subsequently cap have an opportunity to debate its contents.
153.
Important decisions will need to be taken over the next three or four months on what changes it would
/be
right