TNAG-1437-FCO40-1921-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 92

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person visiting Hong Kong, but I hope that Mr Lu and his party will meet, and I am sure they will meet, a very wide range of people.

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on this question of the Basic Law, there are a number of members of the councils of Government in the Basic Law Consultative Committee,

and in the Drafting Committee.

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Sir David, with the 1987 Review

coming one year before the first draft of the Basic Law is to be released, there is some concern that the two may not necessarily converge. Now is there any Government plan to do another shortly

after in 1988?

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I don't think that we should fix a

date for the next Review. But the development of the system will continue, I imagine, after 1988. How it will be reviewed and developed after that period, I couldn't say.

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Going back to your exchange of

views, how are you to ensure that that won't amount to interference from China in Hong Kong affairs?

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Well, I think I must come back to

my earlier answer that the British Government is responsible during this period for governing Hong Kong, and for the administration of Hong Kong, Ultimately, the decisions are theirs.

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But ultimately, whose opinions matter more? Those of China or those of the Hong Kong people? I mean if their opinions are not the same, who is going to win out, as far as the British Government's decisions are concerned?

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