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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989

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MR. MICHAEL WELSH :

Are we saying that the llong Kong people do not

desire full democracy before 19977

SIR DAVID VILSON:

If that means universal suffrage, then the point I

was making was that these various groups have come

together on the basis of 50% of direct elections and the

other half indirect elections in 1997, and that is where

they are at the moment.

It has not been the main subject in Hong Kong

recently.

The main subject has been the question of

safety and of nationality. It will probably come back to

this subject as time goes on,

but that is where we

were

Jast.

The point perhaps I could make is a general point

but I think is of soma significance and is that in

everything that we are trying to do in Hong Kong as

government,

a

on the one hand we are trying to take the best

reading we can of the views of the community

what we have been doing all along;

are trying to build continuity.

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and that is

on the other hand,

we

We are trying to build

up things which will genuinely last right through 1997.