BACKGROUND
1. Mr Robert Parry MP has long been an advocate of an
elected Legislative Council in Hong Kong. This is a
development which neither HMG nor the Hong Kong Government
wish to pursue because it is considered that the Chinese
Government would be extremely suspicious of such a
constitutional move which is normally a major step towards
a territory's independence.
Far-reaching reforms are
in any case in the process of being implemented through
elections to District Boards throughout the Territory for
the first time this year.
Clearly the new system needs
to be properly tried and developed before any other major
changes are contemplated.
Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1 March 1982
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