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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988
CS: POSITIVE OVERALL REACTION TO WHITE PAPER
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ΤΟ THE
WHITE PAPER, "THE
DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN POSITIVE, THE FORD, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF
OVERALL REACTION REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: THE WAY FORWARD", CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID
TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
OUR
OF THE WHITE KONG, HE
COMMUNITY REFLECTED THROUGH "THE BROAD JUDGEMENT OF THE
THRUST THE MAIN MANY CONTACTS AND THE MEDIA IS THAT PAPER IS RIGHT, AND HAS THE SUPPORT OF MOST PEOPLE IN HONG SAID.
HE WAS MOVING A MOTION THAT THE COUNCIL TAKE NOTE OF THE AND INTENTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WHITE PAPER.
WITH
PLANS
WERE CONTENT
TO
SIR DAVID SAID THAT WHILE MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO THE
POLICY GOVERNMENT'S
DID NOT DRAW ATTENTION SATISFACTION, IT WAS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THOSE WHO DISAGREED WITH
WHITE PAPER SHOULD VOICE OR ANOTHER OF THE DECISIONS IN THE OBJECTIONS FORCEFULLY.
THEIR
ONE THEIR
"THEIR VIEWS ARE GIVEN JUST AS GOVERNMENT," HE SAID,
MUCII
BY ATTENTION
THE
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE WHITE
OF TO CHART THE COURSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT
REPRESENTATIVE
BETWEEN NOW AND 1991.
PAPER WAS GOVERNMENT
WISHES AND ACCOUNT OF THE
AND THE GOAL WAS TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM WHICH MET THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AND ALSO TOOK NEED FOR A SMOOTH TRANSITION IN 1997.
ISSUES WHICH HAD PUBLICATION OF
SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A GREAT DEAL OF COMMENT SINCE THE THE WHITE PAPER.
THE TIMING OF
ONE WAS THE PACE OF DEVELOPMENT IN GENERAL AND INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTIONS INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
FOUND IT
THE ACCEPT
FACT Του FAR TOO FAST
ΤΟ DIFFICULT SIR DAVID SAID SOME THAT MANY PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WERE WARY OF MOVING TOWARDS A FULLY-FLEDGED PARLIAMENTARY STYLE DEMOCRACY.
COULD HOWEVER, THERE WERE MANY OTHER PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT THEY
FUSS OVER THE DIFFERENCE NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE SHOULD BE SUCH A
FACT OF BETWEEN 1988 AND 1991 AND THAT THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE WAS THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNC11. OF DIRECTLY THE INTRODUCTION INTO THE
ELECTED
MEMBERS.
"ANYONE WHO
IS
OUR PERSPECTIVE WILI. AGREE THAT WE ARE MAKING A MAJOR MORE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, HE SAID.
ΤΟ PREPARED
VIEW
DEVELOPMENT ADVANCE
TRUE IN TOWARDS A
/HE POINTED