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WEDNESDAY, SEPITUDER 4,

1991

OBTAIN, 11 IS SOPHISTICATED BRIEFING YOU CAN HOWEVER, MUCH

THAT OF ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND COURSE WAS WHY I PRINCIPALLY WANTED TO COME THIS EVENING AND I'M GLAD THAT I DID.

VERY

A PRESS CONFERENCE THANK YOU ALL. VERY MUCH. THERE WILL BE TOMORROW AND I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS ON THAT OCCASION. THANK YOU.

HK HAS GOOD RECORD OF CLEAN ELECTIONS

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HONG KONG HAS A GOOD

RECORD OF CLEAN AND HONEST ELECTIONS DEMOCRACIES, THE SECRETARY WHICH COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH DEVELOPED FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SUEN, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

OTHER

WEST, SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF ROTARY CLUB OF KOWLOON

THERE WAS A MR SUEN SAID UNLIKE

GENERAL SOME

COUNTRIES,

SYSTEM AND ACCEPTANCE IN HONG KONG OF THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTORAL

POLLING AND COUNTING OF THE PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTERED IT, SUCH AS THE STAFF.

"UGLY INCIDENTS SUCH

VIOLENCE,

AS ORGANISED DISAPPEARANCE OF INTIMIDATION, KIDNAP OF CANDIDATES HAVE NOT HAPPENED AND ARE HONG KONG," HE SAID.

AND LARGE-SCALE BRIBERY,

AND BALLOT BOXES,

EVEN NEVER THOUGHT OF IN

UNDER CLOS⭑

HE ADDED THAT THE ELECTORAL PROCESS HAD ALSO COME AND VIGILANT MONITORING BY THE HONG KONG PUBLIC AND THE PRESS.

FIRST DIRECT ELECTIONS TO "THE KEEN COMPETITION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEANS THAT CANDIDATES ARE UNDER THE WATCHFUL

THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN GET CONTESTANTS. OF OTHER ELECTION FRAUD AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES WILL BE MISTAKEN,

11

THE KYES AWAY WITH HE SAID.

CORRUPTION AND OUR PROUD

AGAINST "OUR EFFECTIVE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION

COURTS WILL ENSURB THAT INDEPENDENT OUR COMPETENT AND ELECTORAL RECORDS WILL NOT BE BROKEN.'

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IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST DIRECT WAS INTRODUCING AN ORDERLY

MR SUEN ALSO SAID GIVEN THE ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNMENT ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT THEY WERE CONDUCTED ON BASIS.

STATIONS POLLING ANYTHING MALICIOUS

A HAD BEEN

BUT MAINLY

HE NOTED THAT ORDER OUTSIDE

OF THIS WAS NOT BECAUSE CONCERN. BECAUSE OF THE OVER-ENTHUSIASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF SOME CANVASSING AIDES.

THE

ACTIVITIES

DESIGNATE

OF CANVASSING

OF

TO DEAL WITH

SITUATION, THE

WILL GOVERNMENT

THE BUFFER ZONES

CONFINE POLLING AT

STATIONS, CANVASSING AIDES TO THE BUFFER ZONES, LIMIT THE NUMBER AIDES IN A BUFFER ZONE AND IMPROVE CROWD CONTROL MEASURES.

/"IN ADDITION,