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JOINT COMMUNITY EFFORT URGED

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THE SUCCESS OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY DEPENDS ON THE SMOOT- OPERATION AND COORDINATION OF ALL SECTORS OF WHICH IT IS MADE UP, THE HON WONG PO-YAN SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SPEAKING IN THE DEBATE ON THE WHITE PAPER, HE SAID THAT DUPL THE FINAL STAGE OF THE REFORM PROCESS, THE GREATEST CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT WAS THAT APPOINTED MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WOULD BE GRADUALLY REPLACED BY ELECTED ONES.

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HE BELIEVED THAT MOST OF THE ELECTED MEMBERS WOULD REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF DIFFERENT SOCIAL STRATA, PROFESSIONS AND DISTRICT..

HOWEVER HE WARNED THAT, IF EVER ANY SECTOR INSISTED ON PROTECTING ITS OWN INTERESTS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE WHOLE COMMU ALL WOULD, TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT, BE ADVERSELY AFFECTE

+HENCE, THE KEY TO SUCCESS OF OUR SOCIETY DEPENDS ON WHETHE ELECTED MEMBERS WHO COME FROM DIFFERENT SOCIAL STRATA WILL PROP LOOK AFTER THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, RESTRAI INTERESTS OF THE SECTORS WHICH THEY REPRESENT IF CONDITIONS SC REQUIRE AND PUT THE LONG-TERM INTERESTS - THEIR SECTORS ABOVE IMMEDIATE BENEFITS WHERE APPROPRIATE, HE SAID.

+ IN THE FACE OF ALL KINDS OF CHANGES, THEREFORE, WE MUST ACT CAUTIOUSLY, ADVANCE STEADILY, REVIEW THE EFFECTS AFTER TAKING EMCM STEP OF REFORM AND THEN PROCEED WITH THE NEXT STEP IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY UNDESIRABLE CONSEQUENCE,+ E ADDED.

MR WONG STRESSED, UNDER PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES, AN EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS+ ATTITUDE SHOULD BE TAKEN IN IMPLEMENTING AND DEVELOPING THE POLITICAL SYSTEM.

+AFTER CAREFUL CONSIDERATION, I AM OF THE OPINION THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE WHITE PAPER IN VARIOUS ASPECTS ARE IN LINE WITH THIS SPIRIT, HE SAID.

MR WONG SAID THAT ALTHOUGH DEVELOPMENTS IN HONG KONG'S PROPOSED POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE NOT BASED ON EXPERIENCE, HE BELIEVED THAT THROUGH CLOSE CONTACTS WITH COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD DURING THE POST-WAR DECADES, HONG KONG PEOPLE HAD GAINED CONSIDERABLE KNOWLEDGE AND A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MERITS AND DEMERITS OF DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS.

+BASED ON THIS I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM,+ HF SAIL.

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