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is so, then the consultation of the people of Hong Kong on that draft would be mere window-dressing.
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it then, the proposal in relation to the introduction of ten directly elected seats to replace the ter 10 presently indirectly elected seats, via the pistrict Boards, goes against each and every of the four avowed objective in the White Paper. But of course there
antha White Paper imcering
are other paragraphs and I make
no apology for wanting
relevant
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to be exhaustive.// Paragraph 20 has something to
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say and I hope I will be forgiven to read only part of it. "Those against
meaning those against
the introduction of direct elections this year, "argued
that introduction in 1988 was too soon, either because
it could endanger stability and continuity, coming
within three years of the last major reorganisation,
or because the system of elections to be used after
1997 had not yet been established in the Basic Law due to be promulgated in 1990. so two points were
being taken there. The first is that the introduction
of direct elections this year might endanger stability.
The second is that it might lead to a non-convergence problem.
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As to the first, difficulty,
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suggest it is a totally bad point because of the Government's reply to a question in this Council
on 27th May 1987. Round about that time, Members
may recall, there were a few pro-Beijing newspapers suggesting that the introduction of direct elections in 1988 would jeopardise the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong and will therefore be in breach of the
Joint Declaration. In this regard, I think I ought
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