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ISSUES CONNECTED WITH THE QUESTION OF CONVERGENCE:
THE EXECUTIVE AND THE LEGISLATURE
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1.
On 23 May and 14 October 1986, Sir Geoffrey Howe handed over
to Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian two sets of papers on issues
connected with the question of convergence between the present
structure of government in Hong Kong, and the structure of government to be prescribed in the Basic Law for the future Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR).
2.
The first set of papers described how the present government
institutions in Hong Kong operate in practice and examined certain
issues which would require consideration in order to achieve
convergence.
3.
The second set of papers dealt in greater detail with the
relationship between the executive and the legislature: the future
of the seats in the legislature now held by official and appointed members: and a number of legal issues arising from the drafting of
the Basic Law.
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