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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1989

POLITICAL PARTIES INEVITABLE

THE HON RONALD ARCULLI SAID IN THE

(THURSDAY) THAT FORMATION OF

LEGISLATIVE

PARTIES POLITICAL

COUNCIL TODAY WILL BE INEVITABLE

AND ESSENTIAL AS HONG KONG MOVES TOWARDS GREATER POLITICAL MATURITY.

KONG

TIONG

HAD

тоо HAVING HOWEVER, HE SAID

MANY IF THERE POLITICAL PARTIES BECAUSE THERE WAS AN INHERENT DANGER THAT

OF THE LEGISLATURE MIGHT WAS NO UNITY WITHIN PARTIES, THE STABILITY BE AFFECTED.

ΤΟ

AVOID

SPEAKING IN THE POLICY DEBATE, MR ARCULLI SAID

HIS

HAD LEGCO COLLEAGUES

TAKEN THE

HE NOTED INITIATIVE

THAT

ΤΟ

FORM

SOME OF POLITICAL PARTIES.

THEIR AND

HE HOPED VARIOUS LIBERAL GROUPS WOULD IRON OUT DIFFERENCES TO REORGANISE THEMSELVES INTO A SINGLE COHESIVE

OF GROUPS WITHOUT CREDITABLE PARTY AND NOT MERELY BECAME AN AMALGAM TRUE UNITY,

POLITICAL PARTIES FOR THERE IS "WE MUST AVOID TOO MANY INHERENT DANGER: IT MAY RESULT IN THE LEGISLATURE BEING CONTROLLED

IN CONCERT OR AT LEAST A MINORITY GROUP ACTING

HAVE SUBSTANTIAL

INFLUENCE.

AN

BY

"WE MUST THEREFORE BE ALERT то SOME OF POLITICAL ADVANCEMENT AND REALISE THAT WE WILL HAVE TO WORK VERY TO OBTAIN SUCH STABILITY," HE SAID.

THE PITFALLS

OF

HARD

ACCEPT THE PROPOSALS MR ARCULLI ALSO URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO

FOR 1991 AND IN THE OMELCO CONSENSUS

1995 WHEN DECIDING ON DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

THE

HE

EXECUTIVE, REFORMS IN THE

BESIDES DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LEGISLATURE AND THE SUGGESTED THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO CONSIDER MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND DISTRICT BOARDS.

ALSO

"THERE IS A CASE FOR SYNCHRONISING THE PACE OF

BY SO THAT THESE BODIES WITH THAT OF THIS COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD ALSO BE ELECTED BY ONE MEANS OR ANOTHER.

DEVELOPMENT IN 1995 ALL THEIR

"THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME AND AN URGENT DECISION IS REQUIRED. IS THE EXPECTATION OF THE COMMUNITY, HE SAID.

IT

MR

SAID ARCULLI

CHINA WOULD BENEFIT

HONG FROM INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL

AS CENTRE

A AN DEVELOPMENT INTO INVESTMENT IN CHINA WAS MADE BY HONG KONG OR THROUGH IT.

KONG'S LOT OF

THERE MIGHT SOMETIMES BE HE NOTED THAT OCCASSIONALLY HICCUPS IN SINO-HONG KONG RELATIONSHIPS.

UNDUE WORRIES

AND

/BUT MOST