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Note
Governor's meeting on 4 January with UDIIK
At the
Messrs
representatives
Martin
Lee, Yeung Sum, Albert Ho,
Loe Wing-tat and Man Sai-cheong), the following main points
were raised :
(a)
The
Governor said he was meeting UDHK and other
political groups before ExCo decided what legislative
proposals
put to
in LegCo
present thinking was that there would probably be two
to
early February.
bills, which would be preceded
by a
alternative proposals that had
The
summary of the
been put forward and
the Government's neutral comments on them. Mr Martin
Lee agreed that there should be two bills, instead of
separate bills for individual proposals.
(b) Mr.
Lee said UDHK had put forward alternative
January would
proposals,
and on 6
submit to the
Governor the 54,000 signatures they had collected in
support
of their
referendum.
and proposals
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for request
On the last point, Selina Chow had said
that CRC would support a referendum if there was no
consensus on the Government's bills.
Mr Lee asked
whether the Govenor would agree to a referendum, if a
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