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SELECT COMMITTEE OF HONG KONG
12 JUIN 1989
SIR DAVID VILSON (CONT):
I cannot eas that it would be a service to Hong Kong
deliberately to set out to create something which, if it
We can we knew was not going to last.
always try to do something slightly more hopefully about
what actually will survive, But the question of
was the case,
continuity to my mind is something of enormous importance
to Hong Kong.
HR ROVLANDS:
You are suggesting that if in fact, and certainly in
the light of what the Foreign Secretary has been saying,
that if we proceeded to establish more rapidly a directly
elected Legislative Assembly with a much greater
percentage, if not 100 percent elected by 1997, as a
result of Hong Kong opinion moving, that somehow this
could possibly then be torn down or at least changed back
in the Basic Law?
SIR DAVID VILSON:
Mr Rowlando, what I am trying to suggest is that in
doing this we have got to keep an eye on how it will
achieve continuity. Not necessarily that if we went
faster than we are going at the moment that that would be
torn down, I simply do not believe that that is the case
but trying to keep one eye on the question of continuity.