Prepared by TDC/HK.
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DOCRACY DELEGATION GREEN PAPER
SUMMARY OF MAIN ARGUMENTS
* The HK public expected the 1987 review to determine how direct elections would be introduced in 1988 and still overwhelmingly favours their introduction this year.
China has pressured Britain/HK to delay their introduction until after the promulgation of the Basic Law, whose first draft is this
year.
This delay allows little time for a directly elected legislature to gain experience and confidence before 1997.
* It is Britain's responsibility to see that the terms of the Agreement are fully, faithfully implemented in the Basic Law.
* The British Government is only making a technical point when it says that it did not promise direct elections for 1988.
* HK is undergoing a quiet confidence crisis, with an estimated 38% of professionals indicating (through surveys) that they would be able to and might leave the territory.
* Convergence is no longer an issue because China has disclosed it will dissolve the pre-1997 legislature and introduce a provisional legislature to be elected by a grand electoral college.
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A democratically chosen and supported Hong Kong' legislature is the only way to implement the policy of "one country, two systems"
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