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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1993
MR WONG WAI-YIN (THROUGH INTERPRETER):
THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. MR GOVERNOR, IF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CAN, ON POINTS OF DIFFERENCES THAT YOU HAVE MENTIONED, START TO TALK
AGAIN AND YET THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS ASKING YOU TO DELAY INTRODUCING THE LEGISLATION TO LEGCO AND ALSO DURING THE PERIOD OF SCRUTINY BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THEY MIGHT ASK YOU TO WITHDRAW THE LEGISLATION, HOW WOULD YOU REACT? IF YOU WILL NOT DEFER INTRODUCTION INTO COUNCIL OR WITHDRAW THE LEGISLATION FROM THE COUNCIL, WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT MIGHT AFFECT SUCH THINGS AND MAKE IT HAPPEN?
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I MAY BE BEING LESS INTELLIGENT THAN I SHOULD BE, BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT I WHOLLY FOLLOW THE HONOURABLE MEMBER'S QUESTION. THERE WAS A PILE OF HYPOTHOSES BUT I WASN'T SURE WHAT HE WANTED ME SA
WIIEN HE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF THEM. IF THE HUNULKABLE GENTLEMAN AND I HOPE THAT I'M SERIOUSLY AND SINCERELY ANSWERING WHAT I THINK MAY BE HIS POINT IF THE HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN IS SAYING 'ARE THERE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD AMEND PROPOSALS ON THE
THE '94 AND '95 ELECTIONS PUT BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL' THEN THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION MUST BE YES.
HOL I BIGOTED, NARROW-MINDED, TO SAY ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT BUT ONE HAVE ΤΟ BE CONVINCED THAT THE PROPOSALS WHICH WOULD RESULT FROM AMENDMENT WERE BETTER THAN THE PROPOSALS WHICH ARE IN THE LEGISLATION
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IS DOING GAZETTED TODAY. THERE WOULD BE LITTLE POINT ÎN PUTTENG BEFORE THE COUNCIL PROPOSALS WHICH WE THOUGHT WERE LESS GOOD OR LESS LIKELY ΤΟ COMMAND THE ASSENT AND ACQUIESCENCE OF THE COMMUNITY. LITTLE POINT IN PUTTING BUCH PROPOSALS FORWARD BUT I DON'T WANA UN THIS OCCASION OR ON ANY OTHER TU VIVE THE HONOURABLE MEMBER THE
CION THAT OUR PROPOSALS ARE CARVED IN TABLETS OF STONE WHICH NOT TO SAY THAT THEY'RE WRITTEN IN INVISIBLE OR EASILY WIPEABLE INK.
MR WONG WAI-YIN (THROUGH INTERPRETER):
I BEG YOUR PARDON MR GOVERNOR.
I VERY BRIEFLY REPHRASE MY QUESTION. IF CHINA AND BRITAIN CAN RESOLVE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND ARE WILLING TO SIT DOWN RESUME TALKS ON CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND YET THE CHINESE SAYING THAT YOU SHOULD DEFER INTRODUCING THE LEGIS ATION
LECCA OR DURING THE PERIOD OF IT'S EXMAINATION BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL YOU SHOULD WITHDRAW THEM NOW WILL YOU DO WHAT THEY ASK YOU? NOW IF YOUR ANSWER IS NO THEN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES WILL LEAD TO YOUR WITHDRAWING THE LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS FROM LEGCO?
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