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INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG, HKGO LONDON
BASIC LAW: BLDC DIRECTORS' MEETING (DAY THREE): PRESS REPORTS
PROCEDURAL RULES FOR BLDC IX
THE BLDC DIRECTORS' MEETING DECIDED ON 24 JANUARY THAT THE FIVE BLDC SPECIAL GROUPS WOULD HOLD ANOTHER ROUND OF MEETINGS DURING THE 11TH PLENARY TO RECONSIDER THEIR AMENDMENT PROPOSALS IN THE LIGHT OF VIEWS EXPRESSED DURING THE PLENARY'S PANEL DISCUSSIONS, ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS. TA KUNG POINTED OUT THAT THIS WOULD BE
AN UNPRECEDENTED STEP.
2.
THE MEETING ALSO DECIDED THAT DRAFTERS COULD PROPOSE AMENDMENTS TO PROVISIONS IN THE SECOND DRAFT AS WELL AS THOSE RECENTLY AGREED BY THE SPECIAL GROUPS. AMENDMENT PROPOSALS JOINTLY SIGNED BY AT LEAST FIVE MEMBERS WOULD BE PUT TO VOTE, AND WOULD REQUIRE A TWO- THIRDS MAJORITY TO BE PASSED.
3. REPLYING TO PRESS QUESTIONS, LI HOU SAID A DECISION HAD YET TO BE TAKEN AT BLDC IX ON HOW TO DEAL WITH SUSPENDED MEMBERS MARTIN
LEE AND SZETO WAH IN CALCULATING THE REQUIRED MAJORITY. ONE
POSSIBILITY WOULD BE TO REGARD THEIR VOTES AS ABSTENTIONS.
4.
WEN WEI PO REPORTED THAT ANOTHER BLDC DIRECTORS' MEETING WOULD
BE HELD ON 12 FEBRUARY SEMI COLON THE PLENARY WOULD TAKE PLACE ON
13-17 FEBRUARY.
JI PENGFEI
5. JI SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO VISIT HONG KONG AFTER THE BL HAD BEEN PROMULGATED, PROBABLY IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1990.
SANFORD YUNG
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YUNG WAS QUOTED AS SAYING THE HE WOULD TRY TO ARRANGE A MEETING
OF LOCAL DRAFTERS TO REACH A CONSENSUS ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM SO
THAT THEY COULD MORE EFFECTIVELY PRESS FOR CHANGES TO THE
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