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TRAJSCRIPT C HONG KONG SELECT COMMITTEE MEETING
10
22 MAR 89
FUFEIGE UHORETARY
(CET)
It has got this developing balance between nomination,
election and in due course direct
characterised by the absence of any Party Political structure
which I think bas been a half conscious, half unconscious reaction to the environment in which Hong Kong has found itself.
Living, as it were, on the edge of and in the shadow of what had been great civil conflict in China between the Communist Party and their opponents, I think that people in Hong Kong have been quite consciously cautious about the evolution of a conventional Party Political system. And whether because of that or not, they have been fortunate in having a very high quality of representative taking place in their structure of government at
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QUESTION:
your answers,
from
May I make sure that I have got clear in my own mind,
is it now the position that there is going to be no further progress to direct elections beyond the terms of the White Paper of February 1988, which is going to be implemented in 1991,
between 1991 and 1997?
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