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CO NEWS
HONG KONG SELECT COMMITTEE MEETING
22 MAR 89
FOREICH SECRETARY:
The reason why I was focusing on what is in the Basic Law is
because
we shall need to bring the electoral system in 1995 into
line with what is foreshadowed for the first LEGCO under the Basic
LUM
So
So there will be change in 1991 and change in 1995 to take
that next step forward along the lines I have been discussing.
that those elected in 1995 will be able to continue their term of
office through 1997 as members of the first post-1997 LEGCO.
QUESTION;
Finally,
one thing which has struck me is on reading all
this, where your Assessment Offices and all the rest of it you
bave established since 1984, it is almost as if one is shy of
directly asking people in a direct and most direct fashion, either
by Referendum or by direct form of elections, you are going
through a sort of convoluted process to discover what the true
wishes of the Hong Kong people are. Is that a fair impression?
FORFICE SECRETARY,
Well where you use the word convoluted, I would use the word
exhaustive. I think that the process of consultation, for
example, that took place after the publication of the Joint
Declaration was enormously thorough, using a whole range of means
of trying to teul oplzium.