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proposal for more directly-elected seats and ExCo
was not politicised).
to
In any case, any agreement would have to give rise
legislation, and it was important to carry
political opinion along if only to avoid another
debacle similar to the Court of Final Appeal.
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"temporarily".
17 might say the stock market fell
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At a number of points,
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provocatively
relation
these sections
comment
on the responses of the Chinese side either in
to their unwillingness to address key points or in
the time they took to do so:
(Essential surely to show how hard we what were up
Fried
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gainst.)
(a) The community may regard this tone as evidence of
the British side having a greater commitment to
scoring points than to pursuing the best interests
of the territory.
(b)
It
is obviously important to minimise this concern,
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