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(a) The Development of Representative
Government
40.
debate
system
always
During the past few years there has been vigorous
in Hong Kong about how quickly we should develop our
of representative
government. Your Government has
believed that political development should be based
on the widest possible support in the community. We have
indeed sometimes been criticised by those who would like to
go faster than this principle allows.
41.
these was
This year a number of models for the future
composition of this Council have been put forward. One of
the result of lengthy discussion by the
non-official Members of this Council and the Executive
Council. These models have stimulated a great deal of
debate in the community. This is a good thing. The issues
involved are vital for the future of Hong Kong. Out of
this débaté I hope that a broadly held Hong Kong view will
This would help
the drafters of the Basic Law,
when they meet later this year and early in 1990, to carry
out the important task of formulating the structure of Hong
in and after 1997. The Government
emerge.
Kong's
political
system
/would
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