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CONFIDENTIAL

CALL ON LORD GLENARTHUR BY MR MARTIN LEE: 8 DECEMBER 1987

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REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

Points to make

(Opening remarks)

1. Welcome this opportunity to meet you and your LegCo colleagues, and to hear your views at first hand. Understand importance you attach to issue of representative government in Hong

Kong. It is given equal importance by HMG and Hong Kong Government.

2. Before I invite you to set out your views, wish to make one point

clear from the outset. The Hong Kong Government have conducted

review of representative government in closest consultation with

HMG. We have full confidence in their handling of review.

Conducted in good faith by all concerned. Believe Survey Office

carried out its task impartially, as required by its terms of reference. Independent monitors have attested to this. Consider Survey Office report a fair and objective reflection of views expressed to it. No decisions yet taken a isther routed in Review,

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3. Ready to consider what you have to say.

(Concluding remarks)

Right you should express

4. Have taken careful note of your views.

them fully and frankly: I am sure they are sincerely held. Also right that important issues of this nature should be fully debated.

But suggest that such debates should be reasoned and

constructive, have full regard to overall interests of Hong Kong.

In this regard suggest members of LegCo have particular

responsibilities.

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