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Para 14, last sentence: Lu Ping actually said more than this. Suggest redrafting to read: "The Chinese side asked that the announcement of the proposals be delayed."
It is worth
Pára 28, third tiret, final sentence: reflecting the exact wording of
exact wording of Annex 1 of the Basic Law here 1.6. "One effect of this would be that Hong Kong Deputies to the National People's Congress and representatives of the Hong Kong members of the National Committee of the Chinese Peoples' Political Consultative Committee would have seats as of right on the Election Committee, even though they had not been elected in Hong Kong."
Pata 30, second tiret:
This suggests that the
Secretary of State offered to base the new functional constitutences on organisations, which in the event he specifically decided not to do. Suggest rewording the final sentence of this tiret as follows: British side therefore proposed to
gradual
development
constituences.
of
We said we
"The maintain the the existing 21 Were looking very
carefully at the ideas which the Chinese had put forward at the sixth round.
We were willing to examine proposals for
functional constituences which would meet both sides' requirements. As part of this We were looking at some of the specific sectors put forward by the Chinese at Round 6.
Para 31: To reflect the change above, the first two Sentences of this paragraph should read as follows:
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In Part III. No
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pernickely in Part I (Tmpg readability)
"In round eight, the British side fulfilled the Foreign Secretary's undertaking by putting forward revised ргороваїв on the Election Committee.
In round nine, ав
of
British
the
a
further side's
demonstration determination to accelerate the progress of the talks - and even though the Chinese side still refused to discuss objective criteria for the through train - we put forward revised proposals on the functional constituences. These took account of Chinese ideas and envisaged functional constituences based (as
they had proposed) on organisations.
end.
In any event,
Para 31, third tiret, final sentence: There seems to
be
the a passage missing at
it would be worth elaborating again at this point in the main text on the reasons why we proposed the single-seat, single-vote method should be used in all