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"We all fully accept that we should build up a firmly
based democratic administration in Hong Kong in the years
between now and 1997."
MR SHORE:
Now, what I
what the Foreign Secretary
said in the same debate on the same date - and the Foreign
Secretary is of course the senior minister, Mr. Richard
Luce was a very junior minister - and what the Foreign
Secretary said was: "It provides for the administration of
Hong Kong to be in local hands, and (or the executives to be
accountable to an elected legislature". Nothing at all
about universal democracy and if that had been the intention
and the pledge of that time, it would have been stated. So I
come back to my point, to which I'm glad you've already
conceded, that there was no deliberate attempt to mislead.
MR MARTIN LEE:
Yes.
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MR SHONE:
But, you've now made the second charge, which
is of course that the Government gave way under pressure.
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MK MARTIN LEE:
Yes...
MR SHORE:
in 1987, not on the whole question of an
elective, a totally democratic electors assembly, because
that wasn't at issue at all in 1987. It was the first
installment of direct election.
So your charge is really
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