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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987

ELECTED

ELECTED

MEMBERS

MEMBERS CAN HAVE BERN

"I AGREE, BUT I FAIL TO SEE HOW DIRECTLY

OUR INDIRECTLY

DO ANY BETTER THAN WHAT

DOING IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.

ELECTED

MEMBERS

"IN FACT, I SEE THE RISK OF DIRECTLY THEIR ROLE AS THE PERMANENT OPPOSITION, DOING EVERYTHING UNDERMINE THE CREDIBILITY AND GOOD WILL OF THE GOVERNMENT.

PLAYING POSSIBLE TO

FOR DIRECT FLECTION "IN MY VIEW, THEREFORE, THERE IS NO NEED

DO BUT THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT I

NOT TO ACHIEVE A BETTER HONG KONG. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT A LARGE PROPORTION OF OUR PEOPLE WANT IT.

THIS

POLITICAL RIGHTS, WOULD "NO ONE, WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE WANTS DENY HIMSELF THAT. AND I COULD WELL UNDERSTAND THE ACUTENESS OF NEED AS A FORM OF ASSURANCE OF FREEDOM WITH THE APPROACH OF 1997 THE FORMATION OF A NEW GOVERNMENT.

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AND

OF

AS

DIRECTLY

OF ACCEPTANCE 'WITH THAT IN MIND, AND HAVING BEEN ASSURED SOME DEGREE OF DIRECT ELECTION IN 1997 BY OUR CONSERVATIVE SECTOR WELL AS CHINA, I AM PREPARED TO ACCEPT A SMALL PROPORTION OF ELECTED MEMBERS IF HONG KONG SO WISHES IT.

DELAYING THE "I DO NOT BELIEVE THERE IS ANY JUSTIFICATIONS IN

BE GRADUAL. THE MORE INTRODUCTION, IF HONG KONG PREFERS CHANGES TO WE DELAY THE BIGGER WILL EACH STEP BE.

SAID EARLIER

IN

HER

THAT SPEECH

KONG HONG

WAS

MRS CHOW EXPERIENCING THE BIGGEST POLITICAL CONTROVERSY IN ITS HISTORY.

"HOW WE RESOLVE IT WILL PROVE

DEMOCRATIC HOW

WE TRULY ARE. HOW TRULY AUTONOMOUS WE HOW WE ARE ALLOWED TO RESOLVE IT WILL PROVE ARE, AND HOW FREE OF INTERFERENCE WE MAY BE FROM CHINA AND BRITAIN.

"AND IF HONG KONG CHOOSES TO ABANDON ITS OWN SAY IN THE MATTER, WE CAN BLAME NO ONE BUT OURSELVES IF WE SUFFER FOR THE CONSEQUENCES.

SHE SAID THE 1987 REVIEW HAD BEEN PROMISED AS A REVIEW EXPERIENCE GAINED FROM THE 1984 WHITE PAPER.

WE BACK,

MUST

it

OF

THE

"* BUT

FROM APART

LOOKING

BE CONSCIOUS PARAMETERS FOR THE FUTURE WHICH WERE LAID DOWN AND AGREED BY THE

JOINT

AB DECLARATION

THE SOVEREIGN POWERS IN THE UNDERLIE THE S.A.R. GOVERNMENT IN 1997.

PRINCIPLES

"SO LONG AS THE REVIEW RECOGNISES AND ADHERES TO OF REFERENCE, IT SHOULD BE FREE TO DISCUSS AND EXAMINE OPTIONS INCLUDED IN THE GREEN PAPER.

AS WISHES

"AND IT WOULD ONLY BE REGARDED RESULTS BY-AND-LARGE REFLECTS THE THOSE OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.

OF

TWO

THAT

THESE TERMS VIEWS ON ALL

A GENUINE REVIEW IF THE OF OUR PEOPLE, INCLUDING

/MRS CHOW