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FORRIGE SE MARY (CUFT).

disposition to accept the continuity of representation because you

do not choose the President of the Law Society in a Party

coulested election as it were. That may be part of it.

I think the interesting thing is the extent to which there has been such interest by Hong Kong people in the structure of governmeut, the scale of response to the Joint Declaration when we published that was massive and the tens of thousands of

representations made in response to each of the Green Papers that have been published also indicates a pretty high degree of

interest.

QUESTION:

• The

Perhaps I could come to my summing up question in this

general section. Annex 1 of the Joint Declaration states: Legislature of the Hong Kong SAR shall be constituted by elections". Du you believe that the variety of indirect elections and limited constituencies propoved by the draft Basic Law mets

the spirit of that Declaration?

POREICH SECRETARY:

Yes I think that it dnes.

I think that it is one of the

Interesting things to observe the I think extraordinarily high quality of representative government that actually is to be found

In Bong Kong now.