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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1992
ON
VIEWS
"THEY REPRESENT OUR BEST EFFORTS TO BRING FORWARD PROPOSALS
OF ALL THE TAKING ACCOUNT THIS
SUBJECT VITALLY IMPORTANT EXPRESSED TO US, SIR DAVID SAID.
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A "SECRET ABOUT THE SECRETARY SAID THE EXCHANGES RELEVANT
ON SOME CONTROVERSY OVER THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER DEAL" WAS MADE BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 1995 ELECTIONS, THE CHIEF BRITISH
HAD JUST RELEASED BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES ON THIS ISSUE.
GOVERNMENT
ALL THE
LEGISLATIVE
HE ALSO STRESSED THAT NOTHING COULD TAKE AWAY FROM
A VIEW ON THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO TAKE LEGISLATION WHICH WAS PUT BEFORE THEM AND TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT SHOULD GO FORWARD.
"NO MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL WHETHER HE OR SHE BE
THAT INDIRECTLY ELECTED CAN SHIRK OR
APPOINTED
IT
ELECTED OR
RESPONSIBILITY.
"IT WOULD BE A SAD DAY INDEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC
HE SAID. INSTITUTIONS IN HONG KONG IF MEMBERS TRIED TO OPT OUT,
HAVE
COUNCIL WOULD FULLY ELECTED THEIR
HE SAID UNDER THE PROPOSED PACKAGE, THE URBAN TAKEN NEARLY 22 YEARS TO DEVELOP FROM PARTIAL TO MEMBERSHIP. THE DISTRICT BOARDS, WOULD HAVE TAKEN 12 YEARS FROM INCEPTION TO BECOME FULLY ELECTED BODIES.
REGARDED
ON
AS
A
"HOW MEMBERS WILL EVER SUGGESTED THAT THE CURRENT PROPOSALS
BE THE
OR MUNICIPAL COUNCILS
DISTRICT BOARDS CAN HEADLONG RUSH TOWARDS DEMOCRACY," SIR DAVID SAID.
WAS IN
IN
HE ALSO SAID THE PROPOSAL FOR THE ELECTION COMMITTEE ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY AND OPENNESS DESCRIBED THE BASIC LAW.
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"I FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THE CRITICISM OF IT. IT IS, AFTER ALL, A NATURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARRANGEMENTS WHICH APPLIED UP UNTIL 1991 WHEN 12 MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL WERE ELECTED BY DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS," HE SAID.
TO 200-MEMBER ON A PROPOSAL TO HAVE HALF OF THE 100 COMMITTEE NOMINATED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND HALF BY THE GOVERNMENT, SIR DAVID ASKED:
ELECTION BRITISH
"HOW DOES SUCH A PROPOSAL SQUARE OPENNESS AND DEMOCRACY?
THE WITH
PRINCIPLES OF
OF THE "ARE MEMBERS REALLY SUGGESTING THAT THE CONSTITUTION
LESS POLITE PUT A ELECTION
SHOULD BE DESIGNED, OR TO COMMITTEE DESCRIPTION, RIGGED, TO ENSURE THAT PRE-SELECTED PEOPLE CAN HAVE THEIR CANDIDATURE RUBBER-STAMPED BY SUCH A COMMITTEE?
"IS THAT WHAT A SLOWER PACE OF DEMOCRACY WOULD ENTAIL?”
ON
CRITICISM ON FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY PROPOSALS,
SAID HE HAD THREE POINTS TO MAKE.
/FIRST, THE
SIR DAVID