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Legislative Council before the end of the current
session (mid July).
(v) That if an understanding on all or any of our
objectives can be reached with the Chinese, it should be
made public in a suitable statement, in which we will
undertake to recommend to LegCo draft legislation on the proposed 1994/95 electoral arrangements which reflected
such an understanding.
(vi) To press the Chinese for public assurances that:
- any member of the 1995 Legislative Council who in
1997 pledges to uphold the Basic Law thereby meets
the requirement of the Basic Law for service in the
first LegCo of the SAR in 1997 (ie the procedure
envisaged in the Basic Law for approval would
effectively be reduced to a formality).
- the Chinese side will be prepared in principle to
accept universal suffrage in Hong Kong at the
earliest time permitted by the Basic Law (ie 2007).
if an agreement were to be reached on a method of
forming the Election Committee for 1995, the
Chinese would use the same model for constituting
the "Selection Committee" for the first Chief
Executive and the Election Committee for future
Chief Executives and these Committees would select
the Chief Executives by open election rather than
by consultation.
Our specific objectives for the first phase of
discussions are:
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