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DEC 31 '85 17:53 GIS HK'
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30.12.85
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RG/15
10.45 a.m.
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And those elections eventually, some of the votes in those elections, contribute to the construction of the Legislative Council. Indirectly, at the moment, I quite agree those elections to the Legislative Council are indirect, at the moment.
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I just wanted to change the tack a
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bit and go back to the gathering of opinions in Hong Kong for the
next stage of the 1987 Review. Why doesn't the Government set up its own form of consultant body or vehicle for gathering of opinion, as opposed to relying on those which are going to be expressed through the Consultative Committee, and therefore laying itself open to some
form of criticism?
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I don't think I've said that we
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opinion, and then publishing it in a Green Paper. I was very careful to stress that the works of the Consultative Committee on the basic law and our own work in conducting a Review, are separate exercises, but what I said was that there is a common membership, shall I say, the 180 members of the Consultative Committee on the Basic Law will also be 180 people who are telling us something about how we should develop the system and conduct the Review in 1987.
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Q.
Sir David, Mr Ji Peng-fei did say
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going to be you think it is a big change? And if it is, do you think China should be consulted, or permission should be got from China, before it is
done?
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Well, it is a hypothetical question.
the Basic Law.
The Hong Kong
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What I have said was that really the Hong Kong people are being
consulted on the one hand people are invited to express their opinions over the next few months,
They on how the system of government should develop in Hong Kong.
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are the same people.
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