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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988

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CS DEFENDS INTEGRITY OF SURVEY OFFICE

ΤΟ SUPPORT THE

ARGUMENTS THERE IS NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE

WHATEVER THAT THE INTEGRITY OF THE SURVEY OFFICE WAS IN DOUBT OR THAT

WOULD NOT HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION THE SURVEY REPORT CONTAINED, INTRODUCED DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988 FOR FEAR OF DISPLEASING CHINA.

WHEN

THE

AGAINST MADE TO

AN

THE

THIS WAS STATED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, IN

SPEAKING COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY) LEGISLATIVE

PROPOSED SHOULD BE AMENDMENT THAT THE HON MARTIN LEE MOTION ON THE WHITE PAPER ON DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

THE AMENDMENT WAS DEFEATED BY

42 VOTES TO SEVEN,

ABSTENTION.

WITH ONE

WAS PAPER THE VIEWS FACTOR TO BE POLITICAL

THE TIME THE GREEN FROM THAT SIR DAVID SAID PUBLISHED LAST YEAR, THE GOVERNMENT HAD MADE IT CLEAR THAT OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT

FOR FORWARD TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN CONSIDERING DEVELOPMENTS.

WAY THE

THAT

HE REFERRED TO THE REMARK BY THE HON LYDIA DUNN YESTERDAY

OF SUPPORT FOR IF THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT HAD REFLECTED THE DEGREE

PRINCIPLE OF INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTION IN 1988 AS IT DID FOR THE

HAVE ADVISED DIRECT ELECTIONS, THEN THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WOULD GOVERNOR THAT DIRECT ELECTIONS SHOULD INDEED BE INTRODUCED THIS YEAR.

THE SURVEY

OFFICE

REPORT

THE

SHOWED CLEARLY SIR DAVID SAID SHARP DIVISION OF OPINION ON THE QUESTION OF TIMING AND MR LEE HAD SAID THIS AFTERNOON HAD ALTERED THAT

A

NOTHING THAT

REALITY.

RECOMMENDED INTRODUCED IN 1991.

"IT WAS ON THAT BASIS

ΤΟ THE

THEREFORE

GOVERNOR

THAT THAT DIRECT

THE

EXECUTIVE

ELECTIONS

COUNCIL SHOULD BE

COMMENTING ON

WHAT

MR

HAD LEE

SAID,

SIR DAVID SAID OF

THE

THE

COUNCILLOR HAD CONTINUED TO MAKE GREAT PLAY OF THE CRITICISMS

ONLY BASIS ON WHICH PUBLIC AGB MCNAIR SURVEYS AS IF THEY WERE THE OPINION WAS ASSESSED.

"INDEED, HE

HAS DESCRIBED

THE

AGB

MCNAIR

AS SURVEYS

THE AN ABSURD

CORNERSTONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ASSESSMENT. THIS REALLY IS SUGGESTION," THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID.

INTERPRETATION AND WHAT OF EXPRESSION OF

FORM

SIR DAVID SAID THE ARGUMENTS ON WHAT

GIVEN TO ANY PARTICULAR WEIGHT SHOULD BE OPINION COULD GO ON ENDLESSLY, AND HE EMPHASISED THAT HAD TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT ALL VIEWS IN ITS DECISION.

BEING

"IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IT 18 MR LEE WHO IS WHO IS AGAIN FOCUSSING ON AGB MCNAIR AND NOT OURSELVES,

THE GOVERNMENT

SELECTIVE AND

гр HE ADDED.

/SIR DAVID