„VVETIGAT
SECRET 高度機密
2
(a)
(b)
Preparation/legislation for the first SAR Legislative
Council. Various commentators have pointed out that what exactly this will mean will depend on whether
there are talks with us which reach a successful
outcome and/or on the package eventually passed by
Legco.
Preparation for the first SAR Government. Nothing
very definite has been said about this, but there has been speculation that China will judge whether senior
HKG officials can remain in office after 1997 on the
basis of their attitude towards China in the interim.
Some NPC and CPPCC members and Hong Kong Affairs
Advisers will no doubt lobby for jobs for themselves.
There is even the possibility that in 1997 China might
appoint to senior positions some of its own officials if they qualify as permanent residents of the SAR. But whether such a sensitive area as personnel will be
entrusted to the organ must be questionable. It is
more likely that it would look at the mechanical aspects of establishing the first SAR Government.
waiting of NCNA has however said that members of the organ could be groomed to take up key roles in the
future SAR.
Li
(c)
A hardline Chinese legal expert, Wu Jianfan, has said
that the Court of Final Appeal cannot now be
established before 1997. The organ should draft the
law for its establishment after 1997. In November
1991 wu published an article in which he made clear
GF. JIN
SECRET 高度機密