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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1993
QUESTION:
BUT
PEOPLE AND NOW SUPPORT
THANK YOU MR D'ATTEN. I WANT TO ASK TWO QUESTIONS
I APPRECIATE YOU. I BEFORE I DO SO, I'D LIKE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS. APPRECIATE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE MADE SOME OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE VERY UNHAPPY BUT YOU HAVE MADE MOST OF US VERY HAPPY, BECAUSE THOSE WHO ARE UNHAPPY, THEY ARE USED TO 'KOWTOWING' TO THE NORTH THEY ARE GOING TO DO SO. WHAT WE NEED IS A GOVERNOR WHO CAN US IN OUR FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY. SINCE YOU CAME TO HONG KONG THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF CRITICISMS TO ATTACK THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH I THINK IS GOOD THING.
A
MY
FIRST QUESTION 18 I FULLY SUPPORT A FULL DIRECT AND I ALSO SUPPORT A REFERENDUM FOR HONG KONG BUT WATCHING NIGHT 1 CAN SEE THAT YOU WERE VERY FIRM, YOU WERE FIRMLY REFERENDUM. IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY TO CHANGE YOUR MIND SO PEOPLE OF HONG KONG CAN EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS?
THE
ELECTION TV LAST AGAINST A THAT THE
QUESTION CONSTITUENCY ACCORDING TO
SECOND ONE IS A FOLLOW UP QUESTION ON ANOTHER WHICH WAS ASKFD FARLIER. IT WAS ABOUT THE FUNCTIONAL ELECTION WHICH I AGREE IS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. THE BARRISTERS ASSOCIATION THIS ELECTION VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS BUT YOU SAID 'NO'. MAY ASK YOU WHO GAVE YOU THIS LEGAL OPINION?
GOVERNOR:
—
CHANGE ON YOUR FIRST QUESTION YOU ASKED HOW YOU MIGHT
A POLITICAL MY MIND. SOMETIMES THE BEST WAY TO CHANGE THE MIND OF LEADER IS TO FLATTER |||M. BUT EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE EXTREMELY KIND AND COURTEOUS IN THE FIRST REMARKS YOU MADE, I DON'T THINK I CAN CHANGE MY
I JUST HOPE MIND THIS EVENING.
POINT IP CAN MAKE THIS OTHER
I JUST HOPE THAT ANSWERING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT A REFERENDUM. BEFORE
WHO THINK REALISE HOW MANY PROPLE THERE ARE LIKE YOU ENOUGH PROPLE THAT THE PROPOSALS THAT WE PUT FORWARD LAST AUTUMN ARE FAR TOO MODEST. I JUST WISH PROPLE WOULD SOMETIMES RECOGNISE THAT THERE ARE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED US GONE FURTBER, WHO'VE CONSISTENTLY VOTED FOR CANDIDATES IN
PEOPLE I HOPE THAT
WILL WOULD HAVE GONE FURTHER THAN I WENT AND WHO
BEING THOSE LIKE YOU THE CREDIT FOR HAVING A LONG-TERM GOAL BUT
BUT AS LONG EXTREMELY RATIONAL AND MODERATE IN THE WAY YOU PURSUE IT.
WILL AS PEOPLE LIKE YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR HEARTS AS YOU DO, ONE DAY YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT.
YOU FLATTERED ME, I FLATTERED YOU.
FOR
EXAMPLE,
CONSTITUENCIES
+
NOW,
HUNDREDS TO HAVE ELECTIONS
OF THE ISSUES THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOW, REFERENDUMS.
COMPLICATED COURSE EXCEPTIONALLY
AND VERY DIFFICULT IN SOME PEOPLE I CAN IMAGINE CIRCUMSTANCES TO GIVE A YES OR A NO ANSWER TO.
AT LOOKING
A SET OF PROPOSALS ABOUT FUNCTIONAL AND THE
VOTING ELECTION COMMITTEE AND THE
AGE AND VOTING THINKING WHEN THEY GOT INTO THE REFERENDUM BALLOT ROX, OR THE
QUITE STATION RATHER, WELL I AGREE WITH THE GOVERNOR ABOUT THIS, NOT
I VOTE?' SURE ABOUT THAT, I THINK HE SHOULD MODIFY THE OTHER, HOW DO
THAN THAT BUT EVEN MORE FUNDAMENTAL
IT'S
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHICH HAS TO SHAPE THE LEGISLATION WHICH WILL PUT THESE ARRANGEMENTS
CAN DO OR SHOULD DO PLACE AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE
MAY MAKE WHICH
SOME MEMBERS OF THE
COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE
END OF THE THAT
IS THAT
A RESPONSIBILITY WHICH ISN'T AT THE GOING TO BE ON THEIR SHOULDERS.
IN
THE
ANYTHING THINK DAY
/ON THE