5.
THIS IS A COPY
THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN CLOSED UNDER
FOI EXEMPTION NO.
27(1)
SECRET
6.
The outcome which is now emerging is a very satisfactory one, both from our point of view and for Hong Kong. We
are on
course to achieve an element of direct elections in the Hong Kong Legislative Council well before 1997; and we are set to secure a commitment to direct elections in the Basic Law for post 1997 Hong Kong. I believe that the course proposed is a fair reflection of public opinion and is in the best interests of the territory's future stability and prosperity. I therefore hope that you and
decisions regarding direct
OD (K) colleagues will endorse the elections set out in the drafts. The remaining chapters of the White Paper are being drafted in slower time: I will circulate a
complete draft text of the White Paper in due course.
7. I am copying this minute to members of OD (K) and to
Sir Robin Butler.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
6 January 1988
(GEOFFREY HOWE)
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