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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1993
QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE)
GOVERNOR:
THE ON
DISTRICT IF THE CHINESE SAID TO US: "WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THE BOARD AND MUNICIPAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ARRANGEMENTS, WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCY ELECTION METHODS, WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT
WORK VOTING AGE", WE'LL SAY TERRIFIC; WE CAN GET AHEAD AND START THAT. BUT IT WOULDN'T BUY US VERY MUCH MORE TIME FOR OTHER MATTERS. IT
TIME WOULD ENABLE OUR
ALL.
AT THE THEIR TO SPEND NEGOTIATORS.
WILL NEGOTIATING TABLE CONCENTRATING ON THOSE FEW OTHER MATTERS THAT BE LEFT. BUT I'I WOULDN'T MAKE VERY MUCH TIME FOR THE DIFFERENCE TO THE TIMF PRESSURES THAT
COUNCIL AS THE ARE ON US AS FAR
LEGISLATIVE
18 AN EASY ELECTIONS
SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE ANSWER IN DE-COUPLING, I WISH THERE WAS BUT THERE ISN'T. WHAT SAYING IS THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY FOCUS OUR ATTENTION ON OTHER
CHINESE OFFICIALS WOULD AGREE WITH US ON THINGS WHICH COMMUNITY, THINGS SHOULD BE PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD. OK.
ARE CONCERNED.
QUESTION: INAUDIBLE)
I AM MATTERS THE WHOLE
REAL
LEGISLATIVE
GOVERNOR: I'M NOT THREATENING ANYTHING. WHAT I AM DOING, WHICH I THINK CHINESE OFFICIALS QUITE CANDIDLY UNDERSTAND, IS POINTING OUT THE
ON PRESSURES
TO GET IN PLACE US
LEGISLATION POR THE
THAT COUNCIL. ELECTIONS. IF YOU PUT TOGETHER NOT ONLY THE LEGISLATION
THE SUBSIDARY WE NEED FOR THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ELECTIONS BUT ALL.
THAT LEGISLATION AS WELL, ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES AND SO ON HAVE TO BE IN PLACE, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT 48 DIFFERENT PIECES OF WORK AND THAT HAVE TO BE DONE BY THE LAWYERS, THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE THINGS THAT HAVE IN MOST CASES TO GO TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND BE AGREED. IT'S VERY COMPLICATED BECAUSE THE ELECTION SYSTEM WE'VE GOT IS VERY
NOT COMPLICATED,
IN JUST AS HAPPEN
MOST OTHER
VOTING GEOGRAPHICAL
WITH FIRST PAST THE POST CONSTITUENCIES
CONSTITUENCIES FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM, THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES, NEW FUNCTIONAL
CONSTITUENCIES
BEING
CREATED,
AND
COMMUNITIES.
OR PR
T
ELECTION
AN AND BECAUSE OF
ALAS,
COMMITTEE,
AN INCREDIBLY COMPLICATED BUSINESS. IT'S THAT WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE TIME I IN THE WORLD. I WISH WE DID BUT WE DON'T. SO AS I'VE SAID IF THE CHINESE WANT TO AGREE WITH US NOW THE SIMPLE THINGS, THEY HAVEN'T UNFORTUNATELY DONE SO FOR THE LAST ROUNDS THEN WE'LL BE VERY HAPPY TO RECEIVE A CALL, I'M SURE SIR MCLAREN WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO GET THAT MESSAGE IN THE NEXT TALKS. BUT DE-COUPLING IS, TO GO BACK TO THE PHASE I ALAS, A RED HERRING.
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