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TRAJECRIPT B SELECT COMMITTEE OF HONG KOIG 12 JUNH 1989

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BIR DAVID VILSON (CONT>:

do this is a

Vo do have to ask ourselves how

quite separate matter, we do have to ask ourselves are wa

setting up something which we have a reasonable belief is

going to go on, or not? And that surely must be a very

crucial question to ask yourself.

COMMITTÉK SPEAKER:

That, Sir David, was always behind the ideas of

seamless transition and mirror imaging. But the reality

now is that we are not even talking to the Chinese about

the draft Basic Law and curely wa have a greater

obligation as the British Government to give the people of

Hong Kong a greater say about what they are going to be

doing through 1997 which must be by greater degree of

democracy?

SIR DAVID VILSON:

I think we have to take account of the way in which

In doing political opinions in Hong Kong are changing.

this people in Hong Kong will also be looking at the

question of how they can be sure that what they are

seeking for, what was are trying to eat up,

goes on after

1997.

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