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The Governor said that in the

members of the CPPCC.

light of the Council's

there would be no

incumbents accepting such an invitation.

endorsement of the memorandum

objection, on HKG's part, to

In reply to Mr

the Governor said it would not however

be appropriate at the present time for any member of the

Executive Council to be a CPPCC member. That body anyway

did not have the necessary standing for Executive

Council Members to be associated with

But it was

Executive

unlikely, with regard to both the

it.

and

Legislative Councils, that the Chinese would want people

appointed by the Governor of Hong Kong to join the CPPCC.

2.

D.

Akers-Jones

With reference to the proposal at paragraph

8(b) to make the decision public, Mr

pointed out that Mr WU Shing-shuen, a member of the

Guangdong Provincial CPPCC, had put in his nomination

papers for election to the Kowloon City District Board.

Questions on this were already being received from the

media. Mr J.C.A. Hammond added that the issue was also

to be raised by Unofficial Dr HO Kam-fai in the debate

on the White Paper on Representative

Members agreed that in his speech replying to the

debate, the Attorney General would simply say that

member of the CPPCC had recently submitted a candidature

for the forthcoming District Board elections, his

nomination had been accepted and the Government saw

bar to that candidature.

Government.

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