TNAG-1720-FCO40-2400-Hong-Kong-1987-Review-of-Representative-Government-1988 — Page 149

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SAID THE

TURNING TO OTHER POINTS RAISED BY MEMBERS, SIR DAVID HON JACKIE CHAN, THE HON MARTIN LEE AND OTHERS HAD ACCUSED THE BY- IGNORING PUBLIC GOVERNMENT OF BETRAYING THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG OPINION AND BREAKING PROMISES.

BE FURTHER FROM

THE

WHO HAD

HAD

NOTHING COULD

ANYONE TRUTH. STUDIED THE WHITE PAPER COULD SEE THAT VERY CAREFUL CONSIDERATION

IN THE 1304 WHITE BEEN GIVEN TO PUBLIC OPINION AND EVERT PROMIDE MADE PAPER HAD BEEN HONOURED.

THIS GOVERNMENT HAS "I WOULD REPEAT THAT ANY SUGGESTION THAT BROKEN THE PROMISES IN THE 1984 WHITE PAPER HAS NO BASIS IN FACT," HE SLID

LEE

HAS

MADE,

MANY OTHER POINTS "AND ON THE

THAT MR CONSIDERABLE LENGTH, IT IS NOT THAT HE HAS NOT HAD THE ANSWERS: IT STMPLY THAT HE IS NOT DWTDIREN TO LISTEN TYY TRAY

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MORE THAN WHICH ARE COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED, RESORT OF THOSE WHO HAVE FAILED TO GET THEIR OWN WAY.

FURTHER THE

"THEY CERTAINLY DO NOTHING TO PEOPLE OF HONG KONG. I STRONGLY REFUTE THE ACCUSATIONS.

INTERESTS OF

THE

DR THE HON CONRAD LAM HAD SUGGESTED THAT THE RECEPTION OF

FROM WHITE PAPER WITHIN THE COUNCIL WAS DIFFERENT

THAT OUTSIDE,

SAID.

THE

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SUDOESTTON.

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TRUE THAT-

WHITE

"I CANNOT AGREE WITH THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THIS COUNCIL WHO ARE UNHAPPY ABOUT THE PAPER; BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT, AS I SAID YESTERDAY, THE OVERALL REACTION HAS BEEN POSITIVE.

COUNCIL

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"INDEED, FROM ALL OUR CONTACTS WITH PEOPLE AND BODIES OUTSIDE THIS COUNCIL, MY CLEAR IMPRESSION IS THAT THE DEBATE IN YESTERDAY AND TODAY CLOSELY REFLECTS THE FEELINGS OF THE THAT IS TO BAY, BOMB PEOPLE ARE SATISFIED —OOMBLARE MOT, WHOLE PEOPLE ACCEPT THE WHITE PAPER AS A GOOD BASIS ON WHICH FORWARD.

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