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OF 15084OZ OCTOBER 92
INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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LEGCO ADDRESS: CHINESE REACTION 15 OCTOBER
1. WANG FENGCHAO OF THE HKMAO WAS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT IF CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT BEFORE 1997 FAILED TO CONVERGE WITH THE BASIC LAW, THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE A RESTART IN 1997 AND THERE WOULD BE UPHEAVAL IN HONG KONG. HE ALSO SAID THERE WOULD BE NO LINKAGE BETWEEN THE AIRPORT AND POLITICAL ISSUES.
2. THE LEFT-WING PRESS CONTINUED TO ATTACK MY POLITICAL PROPOSALS IN 14 LEADERS AND COMMENTARIES. THEY PLAY UP MY REFUSAL TO ATTEND A SEMINAR WITH BL DRAFTERS AND ACCUSED ME OF BEING ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKING USE OF PUBLIC OPINION WHICH SIDED WITH ME TO CONFRONT CHINA.
3. WEN WEI PAO WAS WORRIED THAT THE GOVERNMENT-LEGCO COMMITTEE WOULD OVERRIDE EXCO AND LEGCO. IT CRITICISED MY PROPOSALS ON FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND THE ELECTION COMMITTEE AS INCONSISTENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S PLEDGE TO INTRODUCE PROGRESSIVE REFORMS IN THE GREEN PAPER OF 1987 ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. IT SAID THE SINGLE SEAT - SINGLE VOTE SYSTEM WOULD INVOLVE REDEMARCATION OF CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES AND AFFECT THE QUALITY OF LEGCO MEMBERS RETURNED. THE PAPER ALSO DEPICTED ME AS A DICTATOR FOR NOT SPECIFYING THE TERM OF OFFICE FOR THE NEW EXCO MEMBERS: THIS WOULD ENABLE ME TO REMOVE ANYBODY NOT TO MY LIKING.
4. ATV QUOTED CHINESE SOURCES AS WARNING (AS WANG FENGCHAO DID) THAT THE CHINESE SIDE WAS PREPARED TO START ALL OVER AGAIN AFTER 1997, HAVING GIVEN CONSIDERATION TO THE POSSIBLE IMPACT OF SUCH A MOVE ON HONG KONG AND BELIEVING THAT THE SHOCK WOULD NOT BE GREATER THAN THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN 1982 TO TAKE BACK HONG KONG IN
1997.
5. RADIO 1 QUOTED CHINESE SOURCES AS SAYING THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO NEGOTIATE ABOUT HONG KONG'S POLITICAL SYSTEMS AS MY PROPOSALS COULD NOT CONVERGE WITH THE BL, ADDING THAT THE CHINESE
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