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have always served it well, while responding
to people's aspirations for a greater degree
of involvement in government.
- A particularly important aspect of the
future political system is the arrangements
for the formation of the first Government
after 1 July 1997. We attach importance to
achieving arrangements which while clearly
marking the change of sovereignty as they must
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- allow for continuity in administration and
the legislature across 1997.
- I turn now to a separate issue which has been
a source of the greatest concern in Hong Kong
and to Her Majesty's Government: the problem
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