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have always served it well, while responding

to people's aspirations for a greater degree

of involvement in government.

- A particularly important aspect of the

future political system is the arrangements

for the formation of the first Government

after 1 July 1997. We attach importance to

achieving arrangements which while clearly

marking the change of sovereignty as they must

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- allow for continuity in administration and

the legislature across 1997.

- I turn now to a separate issue which has been

a source of the greatest concern in Hong Kong

and to Her Majesty's Government: the problem

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