WEDNESDAY, SEPITUDER 4,
1991
OBTAIN, 11 IS SOPHISTICATED BRIEFING YOU CAN HOWEVER, MUCH
THAT OF ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND COURSE WAS WHY I PRINCIPALLY WANTED TO COME THIS EVENING AND I'M GLAD THAT I DID.
VERY
A PRESS CONFERENCE THANK YOU ALL. VERY MUCH. THERE WILL BE TOMORROW AND I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS ON THAT OCCASION. THANK YOU.
HK HAS GOOD RECORD OF CLEAN ELECTIONS
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HONG KONG HAS A GOOD
RECORD OF CLEAN AND HONEST ELECTIONS DEMOCRACIES, THE SECRETARY WHICH COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH DEVELOPED FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SUEN, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
OTHER
WEST, SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF ROTARY CLUB OF KOWLOON
THERE WAS A MR SUEN SAID UNLIKE
GENERAL SOME
COUNTRIES,
SYSTEM AND ACCEPTANCE IN HONG KONG OF THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTORAL
POLLING AND COUNTING OF THE PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTERED IT, SUCH AS THE STAFF.
"UGLY INCIDENTS SUCH
VIOLENCE,
AS ORGANISED DISAPPEARANCE OF INTIMIDATION, KIDNAP OF CANDIDATES HAVE NOT HAPPENED AND ARE HONG KONG," HE SAID.
AND LARGE-SCALE BRIBERY,
AND BALLOT BOXES,
EVEN NEVER THOUGHT OF IN
UNDER CLOS⭑
HE ADDED THAT THE ELECTORAL PROCESS HAD ALSO COME AND VIGILANT MONITORING BY THE HONG KONG PUBLIC AND THE PRESS.
FIRST DIRECT ELECTIONS TO "THE KEEN COMPETITION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEANS THAT CANDIDATES ARE UNDER THE WATCHFUL
THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN GET CONTESTANTS. OF OTHER ELECTION FRAUD AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES WILL BE MISTAKEN,
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THE KYES AWAY WITH HE SAID.
CORRUPTION AND OUR PROUD
AGAINST "OUR EFFECTIVE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION
COURTS WILL ENSURB THAT INDEPENDENT OUR COMPETENT AND ELECTORAL RECORDS WILL NOT BE BROKEN.'
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IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST DIRECT WAS INTRODUCING AN ORDERLY
MR SUEN ALSO SAID GIVEN THE ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNMENT ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT THEY WERE CONDUCTED ON BASIS.
STATIONS POLLING ANYTHING MALICIOUS
A HAD BEEN
BUT MAINLY
HE NOTED THAT ORDER OUTSIDE
OF THIS WAS NOT BECAUSE CONCERN. BECAUSE OF THE OVER-ENTHUSIASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF SOME CANVASSING AIDES.
THE
ACTIVITIES
DESIGNATE
OF CANVASSING
OF
TO DEAL WITH
SITUATION, THE
WILL GOVERNMENT
THE BUFFER ZONES
CONFINE POLLING AT
STATIONS, CANVASSING AIDES TO THE BUFFER ZONES, LIMIT THE NUMBER AIDES IN A BUFFER ZONE AND IMPROVE CROWD CONTROL MEASURES.
/"IN ADDITION,