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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988

CS: POSITIVE OVERALL REACTION TO WHITE PAPER

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ΤΟ THE

WHITE PAPER, "THE

DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN POSITIVE, THE FORD, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

OVERALL REACTION REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: THE WAY FORWARD", CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID

TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

OUR

OF THE WHITE KONG, HE

COMMUNITY REFLECTED THROUGH "THE BROAD JUDGEMENT OF THE

THRUST THE MAIN MANY CONTACTS AND THE MEDIA IS THAT PAPER IS RIGHT, AND HAS THE SUPPORT OF MOST PEOPLE IN HONG SAID.

HE WAS MOVING A MOTION THAT THE COUNCIL TAKE NOTE OF THE AND INTENTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WHITE PAPER.

WITH

PLANS

WERE CONTENT

TO

SIR DAVID SAID THAT WHILE MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO THE

POLICY GOVERNMENT'S

DID NOT DRAW ATTENTION SATISFACTION, IT WAS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THOSE WHO DISAGREED WITH

WHITE PAPER SHOULD VOICE OR ANOTHER OF THE DECISIONS IN THE OBJECTIONS FORCEFULLY.

THEIR

ONE THEIR

"THEIR VIEWS ARE GIVEN JUST AS GOVERNMENT," HE SAID,

MUCII

BY ATTENTION

THE

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE WHITE

OF TO CHART THE COURSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT

REPRESENTATIVE

BETWEEN NOW AND 1991.

PAPER WAS GOVERNMENT

WISHES AND ACCOUNT OF THE

AND THE GOAL WAS TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM WHICH MET THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AND ALSO TOOK NEED FOR A SMOOTH TRANSITION IN 1997.

ISSUES WHICH HAD PUBLICATION OF

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A GREAT DEAL OF COMMENT SINCE THE THE WHITE PAPER.

THE TIMING OF

ONE WAS THE PACE OF DEVELOPMENT IN GENERAL AND INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTIONS INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

FOUND IT

THE ACCEPT

FACT Του FAR TOO FAST

ΤΟ DIFFICULT SIR DAVID SAID SOME THAT MANY PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WERE WARY OF MOVING TOWARDS A FULLY-FLEDGED PARLIAMENTARY STYLE DEMOCRACY.

COULD HOWEVER, THERE WERE MANY OTHER PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT THEY

FUSS OVER THE DIFFERENCE NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE SHOULD BE SUCH A

FACT OF BETWEEN 1988 AND 1991 AND THAT THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE WAS THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNC11. OF DIRECTLY THE INTRODUCTION INTO THE

ELECTED

MEMBERS.

"ANYONE WHO

IS

OUR PERSPECTIVE WILI. AGREE THAT WE ARE MAKING A MAJOR MORE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, HE SAID.

ΤΟ PREPARED

VIEW

DEVELOPMENT ADVANCE

TRUE IN TOWARDS A

/HE POINTED