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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987

TO STABILITY

AND

NEXT

PROSPERITY, MRS CHOW SAID CONVERGENCE HAD BEEN MOUTHED MOST OFTEN IN LAST FEW MONTHS,

BUT MORE SO WHEN MR TIMOTHY RENTON VISITED HONG KONG, PUBLICATION OF THE GREEN PAPER.

FAR TOO OFTEN IN MY

SHOULD GOVERNMENT

THE WORD INITIALLY SINCE THE

THE VIEW, "IT HAS BEEN STRESSED,

HOW CONVERGE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE

STRESSED THAT COVERGENCE TAKES BASIC LAW, WITHOUT IT BEING EQUALLY

THEREFORE TWO SIDES, THAT THE BASIC LAW IS BY NO MEANS FINALISED AND

TAKE IN

CURRENT POSITION OF COULD BE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO

NATURALLY REFORMS, BUT MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THAT CONVERGENCE COMES IF OUR REFORMS AND THE BASIC LAW BOTH ABIDE BY THE SINO-BRITISH DECLARATION AND THE WISHES OF OUR PEOPLE.

INCONCEIVABLE "IT IS TOTALLY

THE

OUR

JOINT

CERTAIN

AND UNACCEPTABLE THAT BE OFF LIMITS JUST BECAUSE THE OPTIONS IN THE GREEN PAPER SHOULD

THAT ARGUMENT BASIC LAW DRAFTING COMMITTER HAS NOT MADE UP ITS MIND.

LAW INTO COULD ONLY BE INTERPRETED AS INTERFERENCE THROUGH THE BASI

SHE SAID. THE PRE-1997 AFFAIRS OF HONG KONG,

"

INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ELECTION NEXT YEAR PREMATURE

*

DR

IP HENRIETTA

SAID

THAT A

(WEDNESDAY) TODAY THE HON INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTION IN 1988 WAS AS PREMATURE AS PRESCRIBING NEW DURG FOR A YET UNDIAGNOSED ILLNESS.

DIRECT ELECTION ALONE WAS AND FORGETTING THAT A

SHE ADDED THAT PREOCCUPATION WITH LIKE TREATING AN ILLNESS WITH A SINGLE DRUG COMPREHENSIVE CURE REQUIRED A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH.

"WHENEVER THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE, A WELL TRIED DRUG 18 SAFER, SHE SAID.

ALWAYS

MOTION ON SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DURING THE GREEN PAPER, DR IP SAID SHE HAD MORE FAITH IN INDIRECT ELECTIONS.

SHE SAID SHE HAD THE GREATEST ADMIRATION AND RESPECT FOR

FROM THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES INDIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBERS

REPRESENTED ELECTORAL COLLEGES IN THE WAY THEY HAD FAITHFULLY FOUGHT FOR THE INTERESTS OF THEIR ELECTORATES.

THE

THOSE

AND

AND

FURTHERMORE, THEY HAD BROUGHT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SHE ADDED.

HUMOUR AND NEW IDEAS TO

THE

/"'AS THE