TNAG-1437-FCO40-1921-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 91

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DEC 31 '85 17:54 GIS HK

Date:

Time:

30.12.85

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10.45 a.m.

Reporter:

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You did say that the general

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development must converge with the drafting of the Basic Law.

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The exchange of views is the

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With China?

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be a Basic Law, by say 1990.

And of course, the fact that there will So we will know by then the system

which lies beyond 1997. There is no point in developing a system which will diverge from that system which is going to be there in black and white by about 1990.

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Have you any arrangement that

Government Officials of UMELCO will meet Lu Ping, he is coming next

month?

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Well, the Hong Kong Government isn't

arranging Mr Lu Ping's programme. But Mr Lu Ping and his party will be here for the whole month I believe, and I am quite sure that during that month they will be meeting a very wide range of people. I can't arrange Mr Lu's programme for him to meet this group, or that group, or that part of the Government structure, or another part of it.

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But Sir David, isn't it the duty

of the Hong Kong Government to make sure that people visiting Hong Kong from China, at this level, should actually meet people who are elected or appointed, and have for a very long time been, well

certainly, very instrumental in running the Hong Kong affairs. Isn't

it your duty to see that every opportunity is given to these people

to meet?

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Well it is our hope I think.

our hope

that they would meet such people, yes. We can't force our views on any

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