TNAG-1453-FCO40-1964-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Basic-Law-1986 — Page 184

Date

Statements by Chinese

Officials

BASIC LAW (279)

Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist

Communist

Statements/Comments

by others

12.12.85

13.12.85

NCNA HK director: It is good that the BLCC executive committee has accepted public views and held a fresh election.

Sing Pao, Wah Kiu Yat Po, Ming Pao, the HK Daily News and the Centre Daily News: The new election of

the office-bearers for

the BLCC executive

committee shows that the BLCC will abide by the constitution and is willing to admit its mistake.

The South China Morning Post: The net result of the election row can only be positive and enhance the credibility of the consultative panel.

Wah Kiu Man Po: The re-election of office-bearers should be

a reasonable and

satisfactory solution to the previous election controversies.

Wen Wei Po: The re-election of the

chairman and vice- chairmen of the BLCC executive committee demonstrates the spirit of seeking consenus, accommodating dissent views and respecting public opinion.

BLCC chairman T.K. Ann: He will be holding a meeting with the five vice-chairmen and the secretary-general in the middle of next month to finalise the work schedule of the BLCC.

Professor Steven Cheung of HKU's economics department: None of the 59 BLDC members is qualified to draft the Basic Law, which should be a job for law scholars. He does not

believe there is any

system which can enable HK to counter China's

intervention if China set its mind to it.

(report) Oriental Daily News source: The Umelco Basic Law panel was likely to continue to take a low profile to avoid giving a wrong impression that it wanted to play a part in Basic Law drafting.