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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988

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SIR DAVID: DECISIONS BASED ON VIEWS OF PEOPLE

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IN THE BEEN BASED DURING

THE DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT HAVE ESSENTIALLY ON THE VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AS THEY WERE EXPRESSED THE REVIEW PROCESS, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID THIS EVENING.

HE SAID

THOSE

VIEWS

SHOWED

WAS QUITE CLEARLY THAT THERE ENORMOUS INTEREST IN THE WHOLE ISSUE, THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTED DIRECT ELECTIONS AND THEY WANTED THEM BEFORE 1997.

SHARPLY ON THE

IN 1988.

THEY ALSO SHOWED THAT THE COMMUNITY WAS SPLIT QUESTION OF WHETHER DIRECT ELECTIONS SHOULD BE INTRODUCED

"

BASIS

ALONE THAT THE AND IT WAS ON THAT BASIS, AND ON THAT

PRESS GOVERNMENT TOOK ITS DECISIONS, SIR DAVID SAID IN RESPONSE TO A

WHETHER QUESTION WHY THERE WAS TO BE NO DIRECT ELECTION THIS YEAR AND THAT DECISION WAS INFLUENCED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

FOR US THE GOVERNOR WENT ON TO SAY: "THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DAY

THAT FOR THE FIRST HERE IN HONG KONG. WE NOW HAVE A CLEAR DECISION

THE INTO TIME A

INTRODUCED

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1991.

1

DIRECTLY

ELECTED

ELEMENT

WILL BE

TO "THIS MEANS THAT IN THE SHORT SPACE OF SIX YEARS, FROM 1985

ALL MEMBERS OF THE 1991 WE WILL HAVE MOVED FROM A SITUATION WHERE

IN WHICH FOR THE FIRST LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WERE APPOINTED, TO ONE TIME WE HAVE SOMF MEMBERS WHO ARE DIRECTLY ELECTED.

IT'S THE END OF A LONG PROCESS OF CONSULTATION AND DISCUSSION, DURING WHICH DIFFERENT VIEWS HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD).

THAT THE WHOLE THAT THESE REAL BENEFIT то

"NOW THAT THE DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN, I HOPE

ΤΟ COMMUNITY

DEVOTE

EFFORTS

ENSURING THEIR WILL. ARRANGEMENTS WORK AND WORK IN A WAY WHICH IS TO THE THE COMMUNITY OF HONG KONG," SIR DAVID SAID.

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