CONFIDENTIAL
4
This
issue
has been
in the public
doma in for many
months.
It
has, for
example,
been
on discussed
more
than one occasion in the
and the Government was able to take
аге
an
LegCo Public Service
The positions of the respective parties
Pancl.
well known
informed
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decision.
To have had a period of formal consultation would
meant having a moratorium on the
localisation
have
policy
would have taken
us to court and
we
A
moratorium
would have been
would have
led to enormous
(otherwise the AECS
would have lost).
extremely damaging and
uncertainty. We were not prepared to accept this.
IS W: BULL-PT)