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told a delegation of the Hong Kong group, Meeting Point,
that the Election Committee must be elected and not appointed. Do our two principles go any further than what Director Lu Ping has said ?
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You have told me, Vice Minister, that the Chinese
Government attaches great importance to standing by its word. In the light of the remarks which I have just quoted, you will understand my puzzlement. Is it really possible that the Chinese Government now wishes the electoral arrangements for and within the Election Committee to be unfair and not
What possible advantage could there be in adopting such a position ?
open ?
5 August 1993
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