TNAG-1368-FCO40-1814-Constitutional-reforms-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 39

Date

Statements by Chinese

Officials

10.11.85

11.11.85

Constitutional Reforms (18)

Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials

Officials

C.M. Leung: The

government would not

encourage the adoption of

any particular system.

Non-communist Paper

Ming Pao: Remarks by Ji Pengfei and Timothy Renton showed that both Peking and London were

Statements/Comments by others

Maria Tam, Andrew Wong and Yeung Sum: Political reforms must be based on the Joint Declaration.

Andrew Wong: He favoures gradual reforms based on the British model.

Yeung Sum: HK must now start to study the possibility of party politics if HK people are

to enjoy a democratic system 12 years from

now.

Maria Tam: She hopes that the Basic Law would allow the reform introduced during the transition to remain valid beyond 1997. China and Britain have discussed informally

reforms in HK and the JLG would also take up these matters later.