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To cut the long story short, I have finally been

satisfied that this green paper is a well thought out package

which offers the lesser of all evils and that it can work to meet

the aspirations of the people of Hong Kong. And here, I must

congratulate the administration in having achieved this very complex and difficult task in such a record time.

So

I believe, it is not so much the method we use to choose

who represents us, but that the person chosen performs

efficiently on our behalf and for our interest at heart.

while we evolve into a more representative government, let us not

go overboard with criticisms but rather concentrate on positive

achievement of our objectives.

Hong Kong have gone through a period of "brain storming"

for ideas in the last weeks through healthy discussions,

conferences

followed by open attacks in the media, defence, counterattacks and then counter defence. No doubt this is going

to go on for a little while longer, but the time should come, and

I hope it will be in the next few months, to begin to put a

reasonable plan into practice, tread slowly in rough waters,

evolve as we go along and look forward to an even better and more

representative government for OUR HONG KONG.

With these comments, Sir, I support the proposals in the

Green Paper.