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exchanges the JD [JD49] has
Indeed, before these already provided that "[the] legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be constituted by
elections".
Annex I of the BL also provides for the principle of "democracy and openness". It is inconceivable how these principles in the JD, the BL and our previous exchanges could be fully and meaningfully implemented, if the Election Committee members were to be returned by arrangements other than fair and open elections in Hong
Kong.
Last
October, Director Lu Ping said in a press
conference that he agreed fully with the Governor that arrangements for the elections in 1994/95 should be fair, open and acceptable to the people of Hong Kong.
Indeed he
has gone on
to elaborate the efforts the Chinese side had
taken towards those objectives in the BL drafting process [see I]. More recently, at a meeting in June Director Lu told a Meeting Point delegation that the Election Committee must be elected, and not be appointed [see II]. Given statements, we do not see why the Chinese side should have any difficult with the principle that the EC should be elected fairly and openly in Hong Kong.
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