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HUCK 011 3

RECEIVED!

5 DEC 1984

804

PS/Mr Luce

Maišku

FROM:

A C Galsworthy

DATE:

23 November 1984

CC:

Sir P Cradock

Dr Wilson

Mr Orr, FED

HONG KONG CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: LETTERS FROM MR SZETO WAH AND DR DING

A

PROBLEM

1. How should we reply to the letters to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State and several other Ministers from the Chairman of the Joint Conference on the Green Paper on Representative Government, Mr Szeto Wah and a conference committee member, Dr Ding Lik Kiu?

RECOMMENDATION

2. I recommend that Mr Luce should reply along the lines of the attached draft, which has been agreed with Hong Kong and Peking.

BACKGROUND

3.

The Prime Minister, the Secretary of State Mr Raison, Mr Rifkind and Mr Brittan have received identical letters from Mr Szeto and Dr Ding. These argue the case for direct elections to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. They propose that at least 20% of the members of the Legislative Council should be directly elected by 1988.

4. On 21 November the Hong Kong Government published a White Paper on the further development of representative government in Hong

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