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FM PEKING

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TELELETTER 020/393/9 (A)

OF 160121Z DECEMBER 1987

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Mr Fifoit, Legal Advisers

هم انقلم تا

BASIC LAW:

R WILSON ESQ, GDB, HONG KONG

BLDC VI : 12-16 DECEMBER : CHINESE PRESS REPORTING DYS

ONE AND TWO.

SUMMARY

1. COVRAGE HAS BEEN FULLER THAN FOR THE ARIL BLDC V, ESPECIALLY IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE PRESS. CONFIRMATION THAT AT THIS STAGE ONLY OPTIONS WILL BE PUT FORWARD ON POLITICAL STUCTURE. MOST MEMBERS

FAVOUR MECHANISM OF A PREPARATORY COMMITTEE AND ''GRAND ELECTION GROUP FOR SELECTION OF FIRST CE AND FIRST LEGISLAIVE.

DETAIL

2. NCNA ON 11 DECEMBER ANNOUNCED THAT MEETINGS HAD TAKEN PLACE THAT

MEN? MORNING BETWEEN JI PEGFEI AND THE VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BLDC TO SET THE AGENDA FORTHE PLENARY AND OF THE HONG KONG FLAG AND EMBLEM SELECTIONCOMMITTEE (DETAILS REPORTED IN A SEPARATE TELELETTER).

3. NCNA OF 12 DECEMBER BRIEFLYREPORTED THE OPENING SESSION OF BLDC VI, ATTENDED BY 51 MEMBERS, AND JI PENGFEI'S KEY NOTESPEECH. IT ALSO REPORTED A MEETING BETWEEN BLDC MEMBERS AND LIN RUO, SECRETARY OF THE GUANGDONG COMMITTEE OF THE CPC, AND THE BANQUET HOSTED FOR MEMBERS BY THE GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNOR OF GUANGDONG, YE XUANPING SAID THE PROVINCE WAS WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS CAREFULLY AND HOPED TO SEE A GOOD BASIC LAW FOR HONG KONG, EMBODYINGTHE CONCEPT OF ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS. T K ANN, VICE CHAIRMAN OF

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THE BLDC SAID THAT THE MEETING ON THE FIRST DAY HAD GONE WELL AND MEMBERS WOULD DOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS TO MAKE THE MEETING A SUCCESS.

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