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of all the people who cannot or who do not want to leave Hong Kong in or before 1997, by indicating
to the Government that we want direct elections introduced this year because this is the only way
to provide us with some reasonable prospects of success in getting a sufficiently democratic or representative system of government in place before 1997.
Let us also realise that we owe
it to our posterity to tell the Government that its decision to delay the introduction of direct elections to this Council by three years is clearly wrong`and is not in the long term interest of the people of Hong Kong.
Let our vote today be one of
which we will be proud, so that perhaps in 20 years' time, frem now we can tell our grandchildren in what way we have voted today.
Sir, for these reasons, I respectfully
move that the motion standing in the name of the
be amended Chief Secretary, by adding at the end of it but 31 regrets the Government's decision not to introduce
partial direct elections to the Legislative Council in 1988*
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Sir, there is one matter outstanding
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