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TRAJSCRIPT B: HONG KONG SELECT COMMITTEE MEETING
22 MAR 89
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CHALPXAR:
Now, if we could leave the Basic Law specifically and turn to the fundamental and agreed aim of achieving the smooth transfer of sovereignty, of which there are two component parts I would
like to fucus on is
The first, you have already mentioned, Secretary of State, which the question of localising and rationalising Hong Kong
domestic legislation. Then, there is cond, the question of the development of representative government in Hong Kong and we would like to look at both those issues. First, Kr. Bowen Vells.
WR. VELLS:
Secretary of State, I wonder whether first of all we could
establish exactly what the current position is on the development
of gover aœent du Bous KoLg.
In the previous debate in the House of Commons, the opinion given was that that the Chinese Government were not prepared to
see what was termed loosely a through train".
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