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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988

"I HOPE THAT THE PEOPLE OF HONG

KONG

ΤΟ

CONTINUE AND TO BUILD A BETTER HONG KONG AND NOT TO LET A FEW VOCAL DESTROY WHAT WE ARE TRYING 50 HARD TO ACHIEVE FOR THE PEOPLE KONG, HE SAID.

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CONTRIBUTE MINORITIES OF HONG

IN CONCLUSION, MR LEE REITERATED HIS VIEW THAT THE WHITE

INTERESTS OF WAS A WELL THOUGHT OUT DOCUMENT WHICH HAD TAKEN THE KONG FULLY INTO CONSIDERATION.

PAPER

HONG

REALISTIC DOCUMENT AT THIS TIME * * * * *

REPRESENTATIVE DOCUMENT WHICH MET THE F.K. HU SAID IN THE

THE WHITE PAPER ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT COULD BE REGARDED AS A REALISTIC

THIS STAGE, THE HON NEEDS OF HONG KONG AT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THAT

STEPS WERE

SPEAKING DURING THE DEBATE ON THE WHITE PAPER, MR HU SAID

TO DEMOCRATISE ON THE ONE HAND, THE WHITE PAPER PROVIDED FOR CHANGES THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE, WHILE ON THE OTHER, THE PROPOSED

PRESERVE PRUDENT AND CAUTIOUS ENOUGH TO

THE TERRITORY'S STABILITY, WHICH WAS IMPORTANT IN THIS PERIOD OF TRANSITION.

FURTHERMORE, THE CHANGES PROPOSED IN THE DOCUMENT WERE

WHICH WAS STILL THIS STAGE

DISCREET ENOUGH TO AVOID IMPINGING ON THE BASIC LAW BEING DRAFTED, AND WOULD THUS ENSURE THAT DEVELOPMENTS AT WOULD CONVERGE WITH THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE TO BE ADOPTED AFTER 1997.

WAS MR HU SAID HE

PARTICULARLY GLAD THAT THE WHITE PAPER KONG ENABLED HONG

TO UNTANGLE ITSELF FROM THE "DIRECT ELECTION

FOR

AND 1988" CONTROVERSY

NOVE AHEAD, ACCEPTABLE TO THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMUNITY.

WITH

DIRECT

CHANGES

THAT

WERE

THE BRIDGE

ΤΟ ELECTIONS A REASONABLE SOLUTION ΤΟ

HE SAID THE PLANNED INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BY 1991 WAS SHARPLY DIVIDED PUBLIC OPINION OVER TIMING.

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HOWEVER, OVERLOOKED AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ELECTIONS COULD BE

COMMENTING THAT THE WHITE PAPER HAD, NUMBER OF STEPS IN THE PROCESS BETWEEN NOW DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1991, MR HU SAID THAT DIRECT CARRIED OUT IN TWO STAGES.

IN THE

FIRST "WARMING-UP”

THAT

STAGE, NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES WOULD HAVE TO BE RECOMMENDED BY DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS TO ENSURE THE QUALITY OF CANDIDATES HAD REACHED A CERTAIN STANDARD.

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