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the agenda for the Council's
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meetings will be "Any Other Business".
opportunity for Members to raise matters requiring urgent attention, or to discuss other matters of exceptional
importance which may have arisen since the agenda was issued. In recent years there has been a steady increase in
the range and importance of issues put to the Council. In the first six months of 1986 the Council met for over 100 hours and considered over 420 different items. This compares with 1980 when in twelve months the Council met for 103 hours and dealt with only 524 items.
The Council and the future of Hong Kong
In the autumn of 1982 the Executive Council shouldered the important new responsibility of providing the Governor and the British Government with advice on the negotiations on the future of Hong Kong. Arguably this was the most difficult and demanding task ever to be laid on the Executive Council since, by agreement with the Chinese
the negotiations were conducted in secrecy.
to remain
to provide
Government,
Members of the Executive
the Executive Council had
had therefore closely in touch with the mood of the public, leadership and reassurance, and to suffer prolonged exposure to the media. At the same time they advised the Governor and Ministers in the United Kingdom who had ultimate responsibility for the negotiations, not only on the strategy for the negotiations but on the detailed tactics. The satisfactory outcome of the negotiations is in no small measure due to the contribution of the Executive Council.
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