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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
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SIR DAVID VILSON :
Perhaps I could pick up a point that I made earlier
on about the effect that recent events have had on
political opinion in Hong Kong.
I made the point that I saw this change of mood in
Hong Kong as something which is politically very
significant and the change of mood has been the coming
together of different political groups round a particular
model of progress which is that Hong Kong should get to
50% of direct elections and the other half indirect
elections by 1997 and then to full universal suffrage by
2003.
Some
That was a very significant change in the political
climate in Hong Kong and above all significant because all
the different tendencies within AMELCO agreed to it, but
We have not yet got to the point where all the different
political groups outside AMELCO have agreed to that.
are out on one side,
are out on the other. I do not
yet know whether all those political groups will come
together. If they do, then we bave what is close to a
common Hong Kong view and that is, I think, something
Some
which is very important and which we
as
a government would
certainly want to take account of, but that does fall
short of what you were saying,