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Constitutional Reforms (26)

Date

Statements by Chinese

Officials

Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials

Officials

26.11.85 (cont'd)

27.11.85

Statements/Comments

by others

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14 JAN 1986

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(HK Economic Journal): Time was not yet ripe for JLG to discuss political reforms in HK.

(Sing Pao): The most urgent task for the BLDC and the BLCC was to come up with a draft on HK's future political system at an earlier day for public consultation.

Communist Papers

(HK Commercial Daily): It would be a good idea for the JLG to discuss political reforms in HK.

* (BLDC member Liu Yiu-chu): The Joint Declaration provision that HK would be administered by Britain up to 1997 meant only that Britain was to govern HK on the basis of the existing

administrative system.

(Source of Wen Wei Po): China intended to put forward its views on political reforms in HK during the JLG meeting that started on Nov. 26.

(Source of HK Economic Journal): Some government officials thought that Xu Jiatun's "warning" was aimed at the British Government and local people who advocated faster reforms.

(Sources of Martin Lee, Legco Unofficial): Direct elections were HK

people's only hope to

realise the ideal of "one

country, two systems.

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