1989-06-12
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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989
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MR. MICHAEL WELSH :
Are we saying that the llong Kong people do not
desire full democracy before 19977
SIR DAVID VILSON:
If that means universal suffrage, then the point I
was making was that these various groups have come
together on the basis of 50% of direct elections and the
other half indirect elections in 1997, and that is where
they are at the moment.
It has not been the main subject in Hong Kong
recently.
The main subject has been the question of
safety and of nationality. It will probably come back to
this subject as time goes on,
but that is where we
were
Jast.
The point perhaps I could make is a general point
but I think is of soma significance and is that in
everything that we are trying to do in Hong Kong as
government,
a
on the one hand we are trying to take the best
reading we can of the views of the community
what we have been doing all along;
are trying to build continuity.
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and that is
on the other hand,
we
We are trying to build
up things which will genuinely last right through 1997.