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(C) TAM YIU-CHUNG

5. TAM CONSIDERED THAT, FOR THE EXPRESSION OF SOVEREIGNTY, ELECTION SHOULD NOT (NOT) BE HELD WHEN HK WAS STILL UNDER BRITISH ADMINISTRAT ION. HOWEVER, IF THE BASIC LAWWERE TO STIPULATE THAT ALL PREVIOUS LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS SHOULD, ON 1 JULY 1997, BECOME MEMBERS OF THE NEW LEGISLATURE, PROBLEMS WOULD ARISE AS IT WAS DIFFICULT TO TELL WHETHER ALL OF THE LEGISLATURE COUNCILLORS ON THE TRANSFER DATE COULD

BE ELIGIBLE TO BECOME MEMBERS OF THE SAR LEGISLATURE. THE BASIC LAW

SHOULD BE MORE FLEXIBLE IN THIS REGARD.

6. HE CONSIDERED THAT THERE MIGHT BE A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN SMOOTH TRANSITION AND EXPRESSION OF SOVEREIGNTY, AND THAT CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN NOW TO WAYS OF BALANCING THE TWO PRINCIPLES.

(D) SZETO WAH

7. SZETO SAID THAT THE METHOD FOR THE FORMATION OF THE FIRST SARG HAD TO BE ACCEPTABLE TO HONG KONG PEOPLE, OTHERWISE SMOOTH TRANSITION WOULD NOT (NOT) BE ACHIEVED. AS THE ''THROUGH TRAIN'' APPROACH HAD NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED BY HONG KONG PEOPLE, AND AS HIS PANEL HAD NOT TAKEN A STAND ON IT, THE PROPOSAL SHOULD NOT (NOT) BE TAKEN AS A MAINSTREAM VIEW BUT SHOULD BE FURTHER EXAMINED.

(E) RAYMOND WU

8. WU, WHO SUPPORTED THE PROPOSAL OF THE 'GROUP OF 80'' SAID THAT HE UNDERSTOOD THE VIEWS OF THE MAINLAND MEMBERS ON SOVEREIGNTY. HE HOPED THAT THE ''THROUGH TRAIN' FORMULA COULD BE AMENDED TO SUIT CHINESE THINKING.

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