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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG

12 JUNE 1989

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MR. MICHARL VELSH;

I mean,

there is

Would you consider, so that we can get moving and

get more democracy in Hong Kong, bringing forward the

elections proposed for 1991 and bringing forward the

others and is it possible to do that?

such a thing as the electoral law which will have to be

looked at and other different things, Is it possible to

bring it forward and would you be in favour of bringing

these elections forward?

SIR DAVID VILSON;

As you say,

we have got our next elections due in

1991.

I am not sure that I would be in favour of bringing

those forward, simply because that would introduce yet

another degree of uncertainty into Hong Kong at the

moment.

I was suggesting that opinions have been changing

recently and they may indeed change again.

I think it

would be better to allow those opinions to begin to focus

clearly, put some distance between the dreadful events we

have recently seen and for the different political groups

in Hong Kong to have time Lo come to a common view to do

that rather than to du sudden things, sudden changes of

policy like changing the whole pattern of elections.