CONFIDENTIAL
- A section summarising the Sevelopment of representative government in Hong Kong. One purpose of this is to answer the question why we did not introduce full democracy much earlier in
Hong Kong.
- A chronological account of the talks, bringing out the fact
that we have made almost all the running in trying to secure an
agreement.
An analytical section explaining why our proposals as revised
in the talks would still provide open and fair elections and why the Chinese sides proposals would not.
- A brief concluding section explaining what we and the Governor now intend to do about the remaining electoral issues (still
tentative).
4. The Governor saw a slightly earlier draft and was pleased at the way it was shaping up. Mr Goodlad has also seen this
earlier version and was content with it. The account of the
negotiations still needs some updating. But it would be helpful
to know whether the Secretary of State thinks that the draft is
on broadly the right lines (given printing deadlines and the
need to translate the document into Chinese for use in Hong
Kong, we would need to finalise a text quickly if it looked, later this month, as if a break-down was likely).
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