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3. THE SUNDAY POST (7.2) NOTED ZHOU NAN DROPPED A STRONG HINT THAT IT WAS DENG XIAOPING WHO DEVISED THE IDEA OF SETTING UP A SECOND STOVE. MR ZHOU WAS QUOTED AS SAYING IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING WHO ACTUALLY PUT FORWARD THAT IDEA. ALTHOUGH MR ZHOU DID NOT SPECIFICALLY ATTRIBUTE THE PROPOSAL TO MR DENG, ADVISER CHENG YIUTONG SAID HE LEFT THE MEETING WITH THE IMPRESSION THAT DENG HAD BEEN THE ORIGINATOR.
4. LU PING, ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE THREE DAYS' MEETING, WAS QUOTED (8.2) AS URGING THE GOVERNOR TO WITHDRAW HIS PACKAGE. AS REGARDS SETTING UP ANOTHER STOVE, MR LU SAID THE CONSENSUS WAS THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE A NEW STOVE AS THE BL HAD SET DOWN THE DETAILS FOR THE STOVE. MR LU SAID IT WAS THE GOVERNOR WHO WAS SETTING UP A NEW STOVE. MR LU STRESSED THE OVERALL AIM OF THE CHINESE SIDE WAS TO MAINTAIN HK'S PROSPERITY AND STABILITY IN THE LONG TERM AND ACHIEVE A SMOOTH TRANSITION.
5.
IT WAS NOTED FORMER EXCO MEMBER AND HK AFFAIRS ADVISER LO TAK SHING URGED (8.2) THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO FORM A ''TAKEOVER COMMITTEE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE REGARDLESS WHETHER THERE WOULD BE CONVERGENCE IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OR NOT. HE SAID THE COMMITTEE SHOULD COMPRISE CHINESE OFFICIALS AND HK PEOPLE AND THE LATTER SHOULD PLAY THE ROLE OF ADVISERS. IT WOULD BR RESPONSIBLE FOR PREPARATORY WORK BEFORE THE SETTING UP OF THE SAR PREPARATORY COMMITTEE IN 1996. IT SHOULD PREFERABLY SET UP OFFICE IN HK BUT IT WOULD NOT BE A POWER ORGAN. ANOTHER FORMER EXCO MEMBER AND HK AFFAIRS ADVISER MARIA TAM INDICATED SHE CONSIDERED IT INAPPROPRIATE TO SET UP ANOTHER STOVE BEFORE EXCO AND LEGCO HAD DECIDED ON THE GOVERNOR'S PACKAGE. SHE HOPED THE BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS COULD RESOLVE THE DISPUTE BEFORE LEGCO WAS DUE TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE. BPF CHAIRMAN VINCENT LO REGARDED IT WAS PREFERABLE THE COMMITTEE SHOULD COMPRISE HK PEOPLE ONLY.
6. ZHOU NAN (8.2) DESCRIBED THE THREE DAYS MEETING AS POSITIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE. HE INDICATED A RECORD TOTAL OF 37 ADVISERS HAD BEEN INVOLVED WHICH PROVED THE ADVISERS HAD ACCORDED IMPORTANCE
TO THE MEETING.
7. IT WAS NOTED (7.2) CIVIL SERVANTS' ANXIETIES RESULTING FROM THE CURRENT DISPUTE WERE RAISED BY FORMER SHA AND JLG MEMBER DONALD LIAO AND BPF CHAIRMAN VINCENT LO. MR LIAO SAID CHINA HAD TO GIVE TOP PRIORITY TO THE FUTURE ROLE OF CIVIL SERVANTS. MR VINCENT LO TOLD CHINESE OFFICIALS TO REFRAIN FROM PUNISHING CIVIL SERVANTS FOR SUPPORTING THE GOVERNOR'S PACKAGE.
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