XN000022-1987-07-16 — Page 8

THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1987

"IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY BELIEF THAT AS A THE PEOPLE WILL ASK FOR MORE PARTICIPATION.

+

COMMUNITY

DEVELOPS,

KONG HONG

PEOPLE CHANGE, HE

"MY SUPPORT FOR DIRECT ELECTION IS TO ALLOW

FOR THE SAKE OF MORE PARTICIPATION. IT IS NOT CHANGE ADDED.

MR LEE SAID DIRECT ELECTION WAS NOT SOMETHING NEW TO HONG KONG.

URBAN

THE "WE HAVE HAD DIRECT ELECTION TO

COUNCIL FOR

YEARS AND AFTER

BOARDS THE DISTRICT

AND REGIONAL COUNCIL ESTABLISHED, WE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN DIRECT ELECTION."

HE SAID THE ONLY NEW FACTOR WAS THE DRAFTING OF THE BASIC

PRESCRIBE THE SHAPE OF WHICH WAS IN PROGRESS, AND WHICH WOULD GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AFTER 1997.

"I TOTALLY AGREE THAT WE MUST NOT INTRODUCE CHANGES NOT CONVERGE WITH THE LEGISLATURE OF THE SAR AFTER 1997.

THE

MANY

WERE

LAW.

THE

WHICH MAY

PRESENTATIONS BEING CONSULTED BY THE

"BUT I HAVE STUDIED WITH CARE AND INTEREST, MADE BY MANY GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BASIC LAW DRAFTING COMMITTEE.

IN THE BASIC LAW ELECTIONS. THE MOST 73 ARE IN SUPPORT OF THE WHICH THEY WOULD

"I UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAJORITY OF MEMBERS CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ARE IN FAVOUR OF DIRECT CONSERVATIVE OF THESE GROUPS WHICH IS KNOWN WIDELY AS THE GROUP OF OF THE BASIC LAW CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE, INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ELECTION TO THE LEGISLATURE LIKE TO SEE IT HAPPEN IN 1992."

WAS ATTRACTED BY

TREMENDOUS

THEIR MODEL BUT QUERIED CHANGE OF THE LEGISLATURE

MR LEE SAID HE WHETHER ACCOMMODATING SUCH A STARTING IN 1992 WOULD BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF HONG KONG.

A WAS

VARIATION OF HE SAID HIS IDEA STEP-BY-STEP APPROH A SMALL STEP AT A TIME."

THEIRS.

FAVOUR "I

A

IN THE HONG KONG POLITICAL SYSTEM, INEVITABLE AS STIPULATED IN THE JOINT

MR LEE ALSO ADDED THAT CHANGES IN THE FUTURE WERE DECLARATION.

"I TOTALLY REJECT THOSE WHO ARGUE THAT MEANS BY WHICH TO SHIELD HONG KONG FROM CHINESE FUTURE.

DIRECT ELECTION IS A

INTERFERENCE IN THE

AFTER JUNE 30, 1997. WE

"CHINA WILL BE OUR SOVEREIGN STATE MUST CO-OPERATE WITH CHINA AND FOSTER A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP.

"THIS DOES